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Mother Mary with the Holy Child Jesus Christ, oil on canvas, 1913 [11] Samuel Morgenstern, an Austrian businessman and a business partner of the young Hitler in his Vienna period, bought many of Hitler's paintings. According to Morgenstern, Hitler came to him for the first time at the beginning of the 1910s, either in 1911 or in 1912.
This painting was one of Hitler's personal favorites. Madonna of Bruges was intended for the Fuhrermuseum This painting was intended to be hung in the Fuhrermuseum. Adolf Hitler's art collection was a large accumulation of paintings which he gained before and during the events of WWII. These paintings were often taken from existing art ...
The slender figure stands in extreme contrast to the overemphasized masculinity: “The shape of the face, like the upper body covered with informal brush strokes, has no other physiognomic features apart from the eyes and a large ear.” [2] In the same year, Baselitz created another painting of sexual content with the same title (oil on ...
BERLIN (AP) - A 100-year-old watercolor of Munich's old city hall is expected to fetch at least 50,000 euros ($60,000) at auction this weekend, not so much for its artistic value as for the ...
Hitler favored hugeness, especially in architecture, as a means of impressing the masses. [78] "A once mediocre artist and aspiring architect, Hitler also pronounced upon the ‘decadence’ of modern art and pushed his planners to create monumental buildings in older neoclassical or art deco styles." [79] Poster for The Eternal Jew exhibition ...
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 is portrayed as a messianic figure (maybe as Lohengrin) in the painting gazing symbolically towards a greater future for Germany. [2] It is an oil painting on wood and was completed between 1934 and 1936. [2] It was first publicly displayed at the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich in 1937.
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