Hitler famously applied to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in the 1900s but was rejected twice.
Posted on 03/12/2017 4:01:25 PM PDT by brucedickinson
The exhibition's curator sees little artistic merit in the undated painting. "It's a piece of crap," says curator Vittorio Sgarbi. "It's a painting by a hopeless man, it could have been done by Kafka, it says a lot about his psyche: here you do not see greatness, you see misery."
Hitler famously applied to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in the 1900s but was rejected twice. Despite being considered a mediocre artist, his work has fetched considerable sums at auction in recent years.
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Hitler famously applied to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in the 1900s but was rejected twice.
I can see why. But imagine if they had admitted him. Would he have become the monster he did?
THANKS VIENNA FINE ARTS ACADEMY!!
To be fair, the painting sucks.
So now we know he was deluded from VERY early on.
This guy got in. I'm not joking- this guy got in
The painting looks like Obama being admonished by some darker authority.
Franz Liebekind: You know, not many people knew it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer.
Max: Really, I never dreamed that...
Franz Liebekind: That is because that you were taken in by that verdammte Allied propaganda! Such filthy lies! They told lies! But nobody ever said a bad word about Winston Churchill, did they? No! ‘Win with Winnie!’ Churchill! With his cigars. With his brandy. And his rotten painting, rotten!
Hitler - there was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon! Two Coats!
Churchill. He couldn’t even say ‘Nazi’. He would say ‘Noooo-zeeehz, Nooooooooooooo-zeeehz!’ It wasn’t Noses! It was Nazis! Churchill!...Let me tell you this! And you’re hearing this straight from the horse. Hitler was better looking than Churchill. He was a better dresser than Churchill. He had more hair! He told funnier jokes! And he could dance the pants off of Churchill!...Churchill!
I am among the first to criticize when ISIS or the Taliban blows up a monument or destroys a cultural center.
But destroy that Hitler painting. Burn it. Burn all of his paintings. If that makes me a hypocrite, so be it.
And very different than this.
Apparently, he was okay as a city/town-scape painter.
Judging from article's painting, I wouldn't want him doing any still lifes in a building, either.
They rejected ME too !
Before I saw what you wrote I thought it was a picture of hitler in drag that he drew.
It’s awful. And it’s not because I’m not “deep” or “artistic” or “intellectual”, it just sucks.
I wonder if W could get in ?
There is an interesting movie called “Max” which stars John Cusack as Max (a Jewish art dealer) and Gary Oldham as a post WW1, disillusioned war vet and mediocre artist named Adolph. It’s all foolish speculation, but an interesting film.
Good realism isn’t easy, but “art” at the time was getting more and more abstract and decadent, as were German politics.
I don’t like to line Hollywood’s pockets, but if you can get it for free, it is worth watching.
Lot’s of Artists and Musicians achieve greatness without the help of Academia, but Hitler wasn’t one of them!
Omg, I'll take the Hitler
Even if I didn’t know that was from Hitler, I’d say it was the worst piece of art I had ever seen. Brush should not have touched canvas
> I wonder if W could get in? <
W should quit painting and start volunteering at VA hospitals. Perhaps then he could at least partially atone for all the harm he did.
“W”
Looks more like Jimmy Carter.
It looks like the crap they ooze over these days as being edgy and expressive.
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