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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. A number of his paintings were recovered after ...
Heinrich Knirr. Heinrich Knirr (2 September 1862 – 26 May 1944) was an Austrian Empire-born German painter, known for his genre scenes and portraits, although he also did landscapes and still-lifes. He is best known for creating the official portrait of Adolf Hitler for 1937 and is the only artist known to have painted Hitler in person.
Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler[a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, [c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
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]
The Standard Bearer. (Lanzinger painting) Der Bannerträger (The Standard Bearer) is a painting by the Austrian artist Hubert Lanzinger of a stylized Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party and German Führer. The painting portrays Hitler sitting on a black horse, wearing armor in the manner of a 15th-century knight and carrying a Nazi flag ...
Hitler's favorite painter was Adolf Ziegler and Hitler owned a number of his works. Landscape painting featured prominently in the Great German Art exhibition. [ 33 ] While drawing on German Romanticism traditions, it was to be firmly based on real landscape, Germans' Lebensraum , without religious moods. [ 34 ]
History. The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna was founded in 1688 as a private academy modelled on the Accademia di San Luca and the Parisien Académie de peinture et de sculpture by the court-painter Peter Strudel, who became the Praefectus Academiae Nostrae. In 1701, he was ennobled by Emperor Joseph I as Freiherr (Baron) of the Empire.
This is a list of notable painters from, or associated with, Austria ... Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Johann Nepomuk Hoechle (1790–1835) Rudolf Alfred Höger ...