What If Adolf Hitler S Paintings Had Gotten Him Into Art School

Teachers said he didn’t draw enough heads and experts note that he copied traditional paintings rather than create his own work.

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1 of 23This is Alter Hof in Munich, painted in 1914. It’s a idyllic scene among city life, but there are no people.Wikimedia Commons 2 of 23This landscape looks like a beautiful scene in Austria in the summer time. Note Hitler’s signature in the lower right corner.Wikimedia Commons 3 of 23This is another architecture by Hitler. Again, the depth is good but it’s an austere painting.Wikimedia Commons 4 of 23This is a painting of a house ruined by the violence of World War I.Wikimedia Commons 5 of 23Tree at a Track. 1911. 6 of 23Ardoye in Flanders. June 27, 1917. German Propaganda Archive/Calvin College 7 of 23Mother Mary with the Holy Child Jesus Christ. 1913.Wikimedia Commons 8 of 23Shelter in Fournes. 1915. German Propaganda Archive/Calvin College 9 of 23Vienna State Opera House. 1912.Wikimedia Commons 10 of 23Ruins of a Cloister in Messines. 1914. German Propaganda Archive/Calvin College 11 of 23Fromelles. 1915. German Propaganda Archive/Calvin College 12 of 23Haubourdin . 1916. German Propaganda Archive/Calvin College 13 of 23Neuschwanstein. Undated.Artnet 14 of 23Vase Mit Blumen. 1912.Artnet 15 of 23Life Magazine 16 of 23Life Magazine 17 of 23Life Magazine 18 of 23Caters News Agency LTD 19 of 23Caters News Agency LTD 20 of 23Caters News Agency LTD 21 of 23Caters News Agency LTD 22 of 23Caters News Agency LTD 23 of 23Like this gallery?Share it:

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In his book Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler said he aspired to be an artist in his youth in Vienna, Austria. Twice he failed to gain entry into the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, once each in 1907 and 1908. The future dictator was 18 at the time.

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1 of 23This is Alter Hof in Munich, painted in 1914. It’s a idyllic scene among city life, but there are no people.Wikimedia Commons

2 of 23This landscape looks like a beautiful scene in Austria in the summer time. Note Hitler’s signature in the lower right corner.Wikimedia Commons

3 of 23This is another architecture by Hitler. Again, the depth is good but it’s an austere painting.Wikimedia Commons

4 of 23This is a painting of a house ruined by the violence of World War I.Wikimedia Commons

5 of 23Tree at a Track. 1911.

6 of 23Ardoye in Flanders. June 27, 1917. German Propaganda Archive/Calvin College

7 of 23Mother Mary with the Holy Child Jesus Christ. 1913.Wikimedia Commons

8 of 23Shelter in Fournes. 1915. German Propaganda Archive/Calvin College

9 of 23Vienna State Opera House. 1912.Wikimedia Commons

10 of 23Ruins of a Cloister in Messines. 1914. German Propaganda Archive/Calvin College

11 of 23Fromelles. 1915. German Propaganda Archive/Calvin College

12 of 23Haubourdin . 1916. German Propaganda Archive/Calvin College

13 of 23Neuschwanstein. Undated.Artnet

14 of 23Vase Mit Blumen. 1912.Artnet

15 of 23Life Magazine

16 of 23Life Magazine

17 of 23Life Magazine

18 of 23Caters News Agency LTD

19 of 23Caters News Agency LTD

20 of 23Caters News Agency LTD

21 of 23Caters News Agency LTD

22 of 23Caters News Agency LTD

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The faculty at the school said Hitler’s works were “utterly devoid of rhythm, color, feeling, or spiritual imagination.” They likened Hitler’s paintings to mere architect sketches with precise detail but no more than that.

One of the art teachers there suggested the young Hitler go to architecture school. The young man rebuffed the suggestion. He would have to retake his secondary school classes where he dropped out, an option he did not like.

After that failure, Hitler spent time among artist cafes in Vienna. He hoped one of the masters there would take him in and teach him. No one offered. The youth tried to make ends meet by drawing hundreds of postcards, but the business venture failed.

The teenaged future dictator was crushed. Instead of turning his ambitions to art, Hitler struggled to find meaning in his life. As he wandered the streets of Vienna’s urban poor, Hitler heard disillusioned citizens repeat the anti-Semitic rhetoric of King Franz Josef I that wealthy Jews were hoarding all of Austria’s wealth.

Thus, the upper crust of Vienna’s art movement and living in abject poverty unintentionally fostered the simmering hatred of a dictator in his formative years.

What would have happened if the art teachers fostered Hitler’s latent talent? Would Hitler have turned into an evil tyrant?

Hitler learned how to draw and paint on his own with no formal training. What would he have done had someone taught him how to expand his artistic horizons?

Teachers said he didn’t draw enough heads in his art, and experts note that Hitler copied traditional paintings rather than create his own work. Even though Hitler mimicked a lot of art, his basic techniques of creating depth and light appear mostly sound for someone his age. Hitler wasn’t a prodigious genius, but with a little teaching, he could have been great.

In all, Hitler created more than 2,000 paintings during his life. Most of them were destroyed or lost during World War II.

Ironically, Hitler’s paintings are much more valuable today than they were when he was alive. It’s an artist’s curse, and surely his infamy lent to high values at auctions for authentic Hitler paintings.

One watercolor sold for $161,000 in late 2014. A bevy of 14 paintings fetched $450,000 in June of 2015. Imagine what Hitler would have done with that kind of money in Vienna. He would have been the talk of the art scene in the city.

Perhaps the world would be a much more peaceful place now if just one young man got into art school at age 18 in Vienna. If only….

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Teachers said he didn’t draw enough heads and experts note that he copied traditional paintings rather than create his own work.#

Teachers said he didn’t draw enough heads and experts note that he copied traditional paintings rather than create his own work.