Posted on 01/23/2019 6:39:51 AM PST by C19fan
Three paintings by a young Adolf Hitler, including one that may contain a self-portrait of the dictator, have been put up for sale for £15,000.
The watercolour artworks depict idyllic valleys and mountains in Germany's Rhineland and his native Austria.
They are dated 1910 and 1911, when the Nazi leader was aged 21 and struggling to make a living as an artist in Vienna.
They are all signed 'A Hitler' and have been authenticated by a handwriting expert.
One of the paintings, titled 'Alpenlandschaft' or Alpine landscape in English, has an image of a man sat on a rock in front of a stream painting the scene in front of him
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Ernst Thaelmann for one.
I thought Hitler got his mustache from Charlie Chaplin.
It was a perfect fit in “The Great Dictator” (1940).
All in all, I think I’d go for a John Wayne Gacy clown painting over a Hitler watercolor.
“it is doubtful that he adopted it because of Charlie Chaplin. One simple reason that Charlie Chaplin is probably not the inspiration for Hitler’s mustache is that self-consciously adopting the mustache of a silent film comedian would have invited people to ridicule Hitler, which would have stopped his rise to power in its tracks.
“Instead, most of the evidence suggests that Hitler adopted his mustache for more utilitarian reasons either because it was easier to keep hygienic than other German mustache style, because he was forced to cut his old mustache while he was in the military, or because he simply wanted a trademark that would help him stand out as the leader he envisioned himself to be.
https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Hitler-make-his-moustache-like-that-Did-he-copy-from-Charlie-Chaplin
There is no more delusional people than young artists.
I made a living as a photographer; mostly collegiate sports. You would be surprised at the number of people who approach you, telling you how good they are at their craft. Their stuff sucks. Their families tell them they are good. They aren’t.
Hitler was not very good.
Interesting. I taught a photojournalism class at SMU that was really a gimme class for athletes. I covered Mustang games and Cowboy games, also. This was in the mid-sixties and I used a Speed Graphic with a Sport Finder.
During a Navy-SMU game, I was on the sideline as a passing play came right at me. Fiddling around with the focus knob, I looked up to find a receiver about to plow into me. I started to back peddle but there was some dude right behind me.
The receiver clobbered us. Funny thing was, with all the padding and crash gear the Navy player was wearing, it didn’t hurt a bit.
That’s beautiful.
Here's one of Hitler's paintings. Creeps me out. That isn't actually Rudolf Hess at the table but it sure looks like him.
It’s creepy to me, too. It reminds me of the gatekeeper in Kafka’s Before The Law. The men are foreboding, uncaring, but just ‘doing their job.’ If you get past them, and you never will, there is nothing but gate after more gates.
These are really good. I really wish he had just worked on his art.
Otto Skorzeny did NOT lead the raid to rescue Mussolini. He did not plan it. He tagged along to make sure the SS had eyes on the scene and then Himmler spread fake news after the fact.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Sasso_raid
Speed graphic is OLD school. My Dad used one of those as an Army photographer in Korea.
I shot with film for several years before switching to digital.
The Speed Graphic was for rough and tumble. For most other things, it was Crown Graphics with Ultrablitz Matadors. I can’t believe I remember all this stuff.
I used to play with his camera when I was little. They could take a beating! Was the ultra blitz the light with the battery hanging down off your belt?
It was something caring a 400mm and a couple of bodies around a football field. I cannot imagine doing that with 4x5 gear.
And, you haven’t lived until you’ve had full grown basketball players come crashing down on you. Sweaty and huge. Yuck.
Yes, that was the Ultrablitz.
Never did any non-football coverage. I was working at Laughead Photographers. We did all the PR stills for the NFL and most colleges. You may remember pictures of football players charging into the camera with an extremely low horizon behind them.
We put the cameras on the ground and tilted them up to take the shots. It was pretty much a trademark.
I had a friend who retired from the Air Force as a photographer. He told me he once was sitting in a chair at the open door of ... I don’t know, a C-130? ... with a large camera in his lap. As he leaned out to take an aerial shot of an airbase, the camera got caught in the slip stream.
As the slip stream pulled the camera out of the plane with him holding it, he looked down and saw a red cross on top of one of the buildings, and thought to himself, well, at least I’ll land in a hospital.
About that time, someone grabbed him and pulled him back into the plane.
they shoulda let him into the art school and saved us all the trouble
Pretty, in a community college “Intro to Watercolor Painting” way. I mean, you can tell it’s mountains and stuff.
I believe that sooner or later Hitler would have gone down that particular path. When his mother died he fixated upon the fact that her doctor was a Jew. He couldn’t except the death as what it was...something that simply could not be addressed at that time.
So sad.
While I don’t believe in Predestination, I am aware that sometimes life just goes against you or for you.
Random.
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