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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"Hitler, the Creator of the Third Reich and Renewer of German Art" (German: Adolf Hitler, der Schöpfer des Dritten Reiches und Erneuerer der deutschen Kunst), Hitler's official portrait in 1937 by Knirr [4] At the beginning of World War I, he gave up his teaching activities and moved to Starnberg.
A couple of months back, I wrote a post about how a beginning investor could use artist's prints to start an art collection. In the piece, I quoted art dealer Jennifer Watson, who suggested ...