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Vienna State Opera, painted by Hitler in 1912. Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945, was also a painter. [1] During his Vienna years (1908–1913) he made his living as a professional artist and produced hundreds of works, but had little commercial success.
Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in Austria. At an early age, Hitler showed interest in the arts. His father hated the idea of his son becoming an artist instead of a government official like himself. Hitler's father tried to beat the idea out of him every time art or anything related was brought up. [2]
Upon becoming dictator in 1933, Adolf Hitler gave his personal artistic preference the force of law to a degree rarely known before. In the case of Germany, the model was to be classical Greek and Roman art, seen by Hitler as an art whose exterior form embodied an inner racial ideal. [1] It was, furthermore, to be comprehensible to the average ...
Hitler himself sent Heinrich Heim, one of Martin Bormann's adjutants who had expertise in paintings and graphics, on trips to Italy and France to buy artworks, which Hitler paid for with his own money, which came from sales of Mein Kampf, real estate speculation on land in the area of the Berghof, Hitler's mountain retreat on the Obersalzberg ...
Adolf Hitler during his speech at the opening of the 1st Great German Art Exhibition 1937. The Great German Art Exhibition, which spanned the first floor, the upper floor and the two-story "Hall of Honour" in the centre of the building, was promoted as the most important cultural event in Nazi Germany. The show was conceived as a sales ...
KENT, England, March 13 (Reuters) - An album containing never-before-seen candid photos of German Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler and party members will be auctioned on Wednesday, according to the ...
Buy Art That Belonged to Evil Men: After Saddam Hussein fell from power in Iraq, liberating forces discovered that, in addition to being a homicidal maniac, the former President for life also had ...
The Degenerate Art exhibition (German: Die Ausstellung "Entartete Kunst") was an art exhibition organized by Adolf Ziegler and the Nazi Party in Munich from 19 July to 30 November 1937. The exhibition presented 650 works of art, confiscated from German museums, and was staged in counterpoint to the concurrent Great German Art Exhibition . [ 1 ]