Posted on 03/23/2015 9:51:39 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
The still-life watercolour was painted when Adolf Hitler was in his mid-twenties, and sold by his Jewish art dealer Samuel Morgenstern, who was later sent to the Lodz Ghetto...
...The Telegraph's art critic Alastair Smart says of the piece, "The work is of no intrinsic, artistic worth whatsoever. The only vague point of interest might be that, unlike the iffy watercolours of Vienna city we associate with Hitler the painter, this rarity is an iffy watercolour of a pitcher of azalias."...
...Hitler moved to Munich in 1913, having been unable to make a living as a painter.
The Nazis later seized Morgenstern's gallery, and he was deported to the Lodz Ghetto, where he died in 1943. This flower painting has Morgenstern's stamp on the back.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
If only someone had liked his crappy art.
I wonder if Obama is artistic.
After Hitler was rejected by art school in Vienna he came under the influence of Austrian anti-Semite George Ritter Von Schonerer. The professors said his drawings of buildings were flat and lifeless. Schonerer encouraged his hate and said, when he died in ‘28, that he would live on in Hitler.
Hitler was living a Bohemian life-style, staying in dosshouses (hostels, I suppose) painting postcards until the German Army gave him an assignment spying on the new German Workers Party.
And the rest, as they say, is history. He liked to put his head together with Speer’s on architectural designs, particularly for a Berlin that was to be a world capitol of the Third Reich.
Like George Costanza, frustrated architect? All he needed was his own Vandalay industries, and no WWII ...
The world’s most famous jingoist was once a professional, though mediocre, artist who failed to exceed painting postcards. The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna twice rejected him, citing ‘unfitness for painting’, and he was told he was better suited to architecture. Yet though he dreamed of designing great edifices, he lacked the academic preparation. Instead, he became an architect of war.
Those aren’t azaleas, they’re zinnias. A very icky flower.
I’m sure Hitler would’ve made a fine latex salesman.
He was an evil genius.
There are such people. Napoleon Bonaparte was another.
Hitler had an uncanny ability to find the right words at the right time; an incredible extemporaneous speaker. We today have a hard time grasping just how well this worked in German, in his time and place. Consider him, in his milieu, something like Ted Cruz in abilities as a speaker. In private also he was said to be modest and charming, and to inspire loyalty. He was not a prima donna to the “little people”.
Napoleon was much like this too BTW.
Hitler also had an uncanny grasp of political-military situations, and seemed to know just what to do and when, and what he could get away with. He racked up a tremendous run of victories, sometimes through bluff, sometimes with the skill of a matador in distracting his enemies while putting in the knife when they least expected it. He was also, usually, an excellent judge of men, both his opponents and his underlings, many of whom really were exceptional, Hjalmar Schacht, Speer, Guderian, Manstein, etc . He knew good advice when he heard it, until his ego went beyond reason. Much like Napoleon in this also.
I highly recommend reading Mein Kampf, its not great literature and its not been helped much by its English translators, but it is a powerful work, and in it is what amounts to a very practical, amoral political manual. I am convinced Alinski took a lot from it - Hitler himself said he was copying communist tactics of the day.
Lenny Bruce - “Adolf Hitler and the MCA”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtgCJv3CmEY
Latex paint or latex gloves?
You'll have to ask Jerry about which one.
Hitler had an uncanny ability to find the right words at the right time; an incredible extemporaneous speaker. We today have a hard time grasping just how well this worked in German, in his time and place. Consider him, in his milieu, something like Ted Cruz in abilities as a speaker.
You mean like Barry Obama... with the same phalanx of fanatics FORCING his charisma.. And larger cadre of those burning to perform personal destruction on those nor willing to submit.. to his idiot ideas..
Hitler was not crazy he was a moron.. USED by others for reflected power(and riches) and an excuse for just following orders.. personally UN-blameable for atrocities..
Like: Barry Obama.. Bill Clinton.. and her who’s name should not be spoken.. in polite discourse..
Does Obama paint?
“Hitler Painted Roses...” ping.
Both Hitler & Napoleon benefited from being able to point out those seeking to destroy them; the Versailles treaty and the campaign of the European monarchs to overthrow the French Revolution were great rallying points for the German and French populations respectively.
“Mein Kampf” isn’t a great book, but it explains a lot; definitely one of the saddest books written. Hitler explains away his failed art career with WWI poison gas damage to his eyes, but he didn’t wear glasses afterwards.
a True Master-Race-Painting...
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