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.
I’m sure Hitler would’ve made a fine latex salesman.
“...Like George Costanza, frustrated architect? All he needed was his own Vandalay industries...”
Or a Marine Biologist... “The sea was angry that day, my friends...”