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Hitler Painting on Show for First Time at Italy Museum
BBC ^ | 3-10-2017 | Staff

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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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Books/Literature; Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; History
KEYWORDS: art; hitler; italy; museum; painting
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Hitler famously applied to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in the 1900s but was rejected twice.

1 posted on 03/12/2017 4:01:25 PM PDT by brucedickinson
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I can see why. But imagine if they had admitted him. Would he have become the monster he did?


2 posted on 03/12/2017 4:05:33 PM PDT by jmacusa (Election 2016. The Battle of Midway for The Democrat Party.)
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3 posted on 03/12/2017 4:06:20 PM PDT by brucedickinson
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THANKS VIENNA FINE ARTS ACADEMY!!

To be fair, the painting sucks.

So now we know he was deluded from VERY early on.


4 posted on 03/12/2017 4:08:00 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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This guy got in. I'm not joking- this guy got in

5 posted on 03/12/2017 4:08:56 PM PDT by brucedickinson
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To: jmacusa

The painting looks like Obama being admonished by some darker authority.


6 posted on 03/12/2017 4:09:18 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Get used to it - President Donald J. Trump)
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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!


7 posted on 03/12/2017 4:09:27 PM PDT by dfwgator
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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.


8 posted on 03/12/2017 4:10:24 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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Hmmm...Is that supposed to be Hitler's signature? It looks a bit odd.

And very different than this.

9 posted on 03/12/2017 4:11:30 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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IIRC, Hitler really couldn't paint people. Hence, the rejection.

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.

10 posted on 03/12/2017 4:11:33 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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Don't feel badly, Hitty ol boy ...

They rejected ME too !


11 posted on 03/12/2017 4:11:51 PM PDT by knarf
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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.


12 posted on 03/12/2017 4:12:43 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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I wonder if W could get in ?


13 posted on 03/12/2017 4:13:19 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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Dark art from a dark soul. I wouldn't pay a thin dime to own that... Does anybody know who the subjects were in this piece?
14 posted on 03/12/2017 4:14:23 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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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!


15 posted on 03/12/2017 4:16:15 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: al baby

Omg, I'll take the Hitler

16 posted on 03/12/2017 4:16:27 PM PDT by brucedickinson
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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


17 posted on 03/12/2017 4:17:34 PM PDT by brucedickinson
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> 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.


18 posted on 03/12/2017 4:18:15 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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“W”

Looks more like Jimmy Carter.


19 posted on 03/12/2017 4:22:26 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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It looks like the crap they ooze over these days as being edgy and expressive.


20 posted on 03/12/2017 4:22:27 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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