I son got his scholarship to Art school after the Army, and he never became a Hitler, so you could have something here.
He proved he was better suited to be a dictator than an artist; although each, in the end, resulted in failure.
Such a painter, he could paint a whole apartment in
one day, two coats!
That whole World War I thing probably had more to do with Hitler becoming Hitler than this did.
Consider how many artists do become involved in radical politics. I doubt it would have prevented very much.
I am wondering on a much smaller scale, though, if he might have become a decent artist with a little training. His stuff isn't hard to find. Painfully conventional, even stilted, composition, and rarely does he pull off a passable human being, although one of his sketches of an old woman seems promising.
I don't know if you'd call it "fate" but odd circumstances do sometimes put some rather disturbed people in positions of power. Our current President is a case in point. And whatever else you can say about Hitler, he certainly was "transformative".
He probably would have still dropped everything he was doing to eagerly enlist in the army at the outbreak of WWI.
Hitler actually had some passing talent as an artist. He made a living — albeit a meager one — selling paintings of architecture in Vienna for a brief period.
Hitler watercolor sells at auction for $162,000
What surprised me was this:
The auction house says the painting is one some 2,000 by Hitler
I had no idea he had done that many pieces.
People who make pacts with demons seldom do it on a whim.
They always have excuses, and they might waffle a bit, but eventually they choose evil because - in fact - they want to be evil.
Deep, deep down, they want to see what God will do if they attack Him.
God always provides the answer they seek - though seldom in a way they expect.
LOL
If Castro had been signed up by a major baseball team here would he have gone back to Cuba and turned into a communist country?