Hitler's paintings sell for record price at auction

[Praxius]

Piece of history ... this watercolour with the letters "AH" written beside it sold for £10,000

Paintings believed to be by Adolf Hitler sell for record price at auction
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A SERIES of paintings believed to be by a young Adolf Hitler fetched nearly £98,000 ($143,000) including premium at an auction in Britain, well in excess of pre-sale estimates.

Among them was a watercolour of a pensive figure sitting at the end of a stone bridge with the letters "AH" written beside it, which sold for £10,000.

The work is dated 1908, at a time when Hitler was a struggling artist in Vienna. The figure's face lacks a nose and mouth, as well the trademark square mustache.

Hitler applied to art school in Vienna but was rejected, and went on to join the army and fight in World War One.

An Alpine landscape painted in oils fetched £13,500.

"I was completely gobsmacked to be honest," said Richard Westwood-Brookes, a historical documents expert who ran the sale for Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers and Valuers........

Gee.... and maybe in another 100 years, people will remember "Hitler The Artist..... who just so happened to try to take over the world on the side."

Would you like to own a Hitler Painting? If so, how much would you be willing to spend?

[SoylentGreen]

I have seen the paintings, they are flat unimaginative lack in depth.
This is easily the worst thing hitler ever did.

[Praxius]

Actually the picture above has some interesting characteristics to it.... I kinda like it.

The light shading in the background for the wooded area, and the ripple-like reflection that goes along with the bridge..... it's sure no Da Vinci, but it has it's own style.

[GeminiBrian]

Actually the picture above has some interesting characteristics to it.... I kinda like it.

The light shading in the background for the wooded area, and the ripple-like reflection that goes along with the bridge..... it's sure no Da Vinci, but it has it's own style.

But the ominously blood-stained water is rather creepy, don't you think?

[Praxius]

While I did notice the bloody water, my main concern was the structural soundness of that bridge.

Maybe he didn't have any blue?

No, wait, I see yellow and green, and it appears he had a little bit of blue in there..... so he had the capability to make a nice blue river..... but chose to have a genocide up stream.

Interesting..... it's like looking into his mind, and thus, seeing the future from the past.... er, in the future.

[GeminiBrian]

While I did notice the bloody water, my main concern was the structural soundness of that bridge.

Maybe he didn't have any blue?

No, wait, I see yellow and green, and it appears he had a little bit of blue in there..... so he had the capability to make a nice blue river..... but chose to have a genocide up stream.

Interesting..... it's like looking into his mind, and thus, seeing the future from the past.... er, in the future.

I guess you missed your true vocation, Prax, you should have been either a detective or a psychologist or a comedian - or maybe a mixture of all three...

[princessme23]

it depends where abouts the profits of the sale would go?
They aren't interesting or captivating, I can see how he failed to get into art school. But what I find weird is what would of happened if he had of got into that art school?
That a few peoples decsion's to not send him up that path, sent him up the bath of WWII !
sorry bit deep there. I wouldn't own nothing of his, It would certainly be to creepy to walk past that in the middle of the night!

[Praxius]

it depends where abouts the profits of the sale would go?
They aren't interesting or captivating, I can see how he failed to get into art school. But what I find weird is what would of happened if he had of got into that art school?
That a few peoples decsion's to not send him up that path, sent him up the bath of WWII !
sorry bit deep there.

Indeed.... see people, this is what eventually happens when the snotty popular group keeps pushing down the little quiet artistic fella...... they try and take over the world.

I wouldn't own nothing of his, It would certainly be to creepy to walk past that in the middle of the night!

What? Just the thought that as you walk down your hallway and being only a few inches away from what his own hands touched? How his ghost probably hovers over your bed at night, watching you breath with that cold, dead, angry at the world face of his...... BOOGA BOOGA!!!!

Ok, seriously though, yeah sure I'd be freaked out if I was living in his house or his bunker, but for some reason, things like paintings or furniture don't phase me.

[Nochipra]

It's too bad that he didn't try to persue other artistic outlets in his life instead of being the ruthless killer he ended up being.

[Aussie]

I think its an interesting insight into the mind of pyschopath, i'm sure it could teach us a few things.

I've seen this article a few times now and readers comments of 'burn it' are just plain pathetic, hello irony??

[GeminiBrian]

I think its an interesting insight into the mind of pyschopath, i'm sure it could teach us a few things.

I've seen this article a few times now and readers comments of 'burn it' are just plain pathetic, hello irony??

I went to Art School with a guy who ended up being a Tory member of parliament - life's strange like that.

ps. he was a lousy artist, as it happens.