Disney paintings by Adolf Hitler discovered in Norway

[OldRecon]

Watercolour paintings of figures from the Disney classic "Snowwhite & the 7 dwarfs" were recently discovered behind a water colour landscape painting, apparently made by Hitler in 1940 & lately sold to a Norwegian net auction customer, when the picture was de-framed for closer inspection .

Original front watercolour painting:


Example of Disney dwarf cartoon painting fount behind the topmost landscape painting after de-framing:


Full article here (unfortunately i Norwegian only): http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2008/02/20/527509.html

[PeterG]

No Van Gogh, but obviously better at painting than military strategy.. He should have stuck with it.

[mas36]

The painting is actually quite nice. I am surprised to see it dated '40 (1940). I thought Hitler had given up painting well before the war. It is true, he did have an eye for art. As PeterG said, it is too bad he didn't stay with it.

[Jaeger07]

Bahahaha. That dwarf probably means something freudian, can we get a psychiatrist to do a quick analysis?


Maybe little Adolf had a dream of painting for Walt Disney? He did have a fascination for disney-styled castles...

[Minardiau]

If Hitler was an artist today he would probably be doing quite well at it.

The works that I have seen are in my view quite good. Probably not quite good enough to be in major art galleries though. But definetly good enough for him to run his own small gallery where he sells his works and from sales on the net.

An art teacher I know from Sydney actually has one of his works (printed copy) hanging on her wall as she finds it to be a really good piece.

The reason why he never stuck with it were two reasons really. 1. And probably the biggest reason was that WW1 broke out. 2. The general population of the time was by todays standards living in poverty. It's not as if a construction worker was going to be buying a piece of art to hang on his living room wall when he has kids to feed, rent to pay that his wage barely covers. Today practically everyone will have a piece of art in their house.

Personally I reckon his paintings are quite good.

And as far as I know he was always interested in art and architecture right up until the latter stages of WW2.

[Rakki]

The Nazis certainly collected a lot of the "good" stuff when they were in power...

[Rudolph]

His sketches of the VW Beetle are quite nice too.

[He219]

Two watercolors and a pencil drawing by Adolf Hitler are displayed at an auction in Toensberg, Norway, Tuesday July 13, 1999 where they were sold for $80,400 to an anonymous collector from Austria. The three pieces, all signed, were done more that 85 years ago after the future Nazi dictator failed to gain admission to art school in Vienna as a young man

Auctioneer's assistant Jemma Taylor displays some of the Adolf Hitler paintings going up for auction at Jeffrey's Auctioneers, Lostwithiel, southwestern England Monday Sept. 18, 2006. The 21 watercolours and sketches, produced between 1916 and 1918, will go under the hammer on Sept. 26, and are expected to fetch up to 100,000 pounds (US$190,000; 150,000 euro).

Auctioneer Ian Morris holds a a painting titled "The Church of Preux-au-Bois," which sold for US$19,975, during an auction of watercolors and sketches attributed to Adolf Hitler, in Lostwithiel, England, Tuesday Sept. 26, 2006. The 21 watercolors and two sketches, most of them landscapes, sold for a total of $220,000 at an auction Tuesday that was briefly interrupted by a pair of self-styled "comedy terrorists."

He did have a fascination for disney-styled castles...

Disney style castles; wtf?
Hitler committed suicide ten years before Disney built his castle ..
What do you think influenced Disney's Castle?

Das Schloss Neuschwanstein, fotografiert von Schwangau am Freitag, 2. Maerz 2007.

Children sprint across a drawbridge and into the castle that marks the entrance to Fantasyland at the opening of Walt Disney's Disneyland in Anaheim, California, July 17, 1955. Fantasyland had been closed until late in the day, and a virtual stampede developed when it finally opened.

[Vehemence]

^^^ He was pretty good.

[CreepingDeath]

No Van Gogh, but obviously better at painting than military strategy.. He should have stuck with it.

Actualy he tried/struggled to be an artist. but he failed entrance exams a couple of times in Berlin academy of art or whatever the academy was called back then.

[Bulletproof]

Kinda funny, the guy wanted to be an artist, but instead, he became one of the most evil guy in the history. That something.

[hell]

Always interesting to hear one of those "what if" stories about the direction of someone's life. If Elvis hadn't been discovered, he probably would have been a truck driver the rest of his life. Just think, if some eccentric nitwit at the art academy had just let ol Adolf in, the most noteriety he would have ever gotten was a blip on Antiques Roadshow.

Too bad one of those close scrapes he had as a runner in WW1 didn't kill him like it unfortunately did to so many other people.

[California Joe]

Adolf had bad timing. He was a decent painter but his work was considered too old fashioned at the time. Landscapes and scenic Austrian villages weren't cutting edge. Art was moving in a much more radical expressionistic direction.

What the hell is the name of that movie with John Cusak as a Jewish gallery owner that sort of befriends Hitler?

[31C]

Cute. Chubby, but cute.

[seraosha]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290210/

And Hitler was not a good artist, just another hack wallpaper hanger trying his hand at painting.
A "what if" needs to start with his being wounded in WWI, bot his poor painting skills.