Hitler's Artwork

[маразм1]

http://www.snyderstreasures.net/pages/hartworks.htm

Beautiful stuff!  I had no idea...

[BachQ]

"Before amassing his fortune with the enormous royalties from the publication of his hugely popular Mein Kampf, Hitler earned a living by using his artistic skills ... [and] was a great student of the fine arts and studied music, opera, painting, sculpture, and architecture."

[MishaK]

It's mostly amateurish, really. You can see why he didn't succeed in that line of work.

[Brian]

If only he had been a slightly better artist. Then instead of starting the Holocaust, he could have worked for a postcard company.

[маразм1]

at least, this is much better than Saul's "paintings"

[PSmith08]

Aside from the execrable taste involved with owning a Hitler painting, what does one do with it? They lack any redeeming artistic merit, which is to say that they are so mediocre that their intrinsic value cannot ameliorate the fact that Adolf Hitler painted them. These aren't Kandinsky or Pollock paintings. They're treacly crap from the hand of the worst man produced by the 20th century.

Bad art is one thing. Bad art by a genocidal tyrant just will not do.

[head-case]

http://www.snyderstreasures.net/pages/hartworks.htm

Beautiful stuff!  I had no idea...

As if this is new to anyone.  I thought everyone knew Hitler was a second rate artist in his youth.  He was also an undistinguished soldier, and even studied to be a priest, if I remember correctly. 

[Hollywood]

If only Hitler wasn't rejected as a student by those art professors into the School of Art here in Vienna. Who knows how history would have played out. 

[david johnson]

i've seen some hitler art in person.  my wife is an artist and chuckled at it.  the buildings were fine, but i could see how the lighting/shadow was really off.
next to it in the display was a copy of a handel concerto with the dictator's signature on it.

the jerk doesn't rest even in death - across the aisle was some of gen. patton's stuff!

dj

[The new erato]

Fascinating to think about how the world might have been if the little Schiklgruber had had some little talent.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I think Hitler's art is on a par with Saddam Hussain's novels.

[Shrunk]

There was an extraordinary documentary released several years ago, The Architecture of Doom, which argues that Nazism was in large part motivated by aesthetic/artistic values.

[greg]

http://www.snyderstreasures.net/pages/hartworks.htm

Beautiful stuff!  I had no idea...

i like the ones in the cities.

If only Hitler wasn't rejected as a student by those art professors into the School of Art here in Vienna. Who knows how history would have played out. 

i always wondered that, too..... and weren't the professors there Jewish?

[Josquin des Prez]

Oh hello guys, i'm here to demonstrate my eXtreme disdain for this thread and anything even remotely related to this evil man. Ok, you can proceed now.

[Norbeone]

Oh hello guys, i'm here to demonstrate my eXtreme disdain for this thread and anything even remotely related to this evil man. Ok, you can proceed now.

Why, what did he do?

[Michel]

Bad art by a genocidal tyrant just will not do.

Yeah, I don't much care for Wagner either.

[head-case]

Yeah, I don't much care for Wagner either.

I guess if Wagner's operas were rejected by Professors in Vienna we'd have found out how good a genocidal dictator he would have been.

[M forever]

Fascinating to think about how the world might have been if the little Schiklgruber had had some little talent.

Not much different. Hitler wasn't the cause of all that, he was just riding a strong wave like many other people. He didn't really shape history that much, he just added his touches to it here and there. He was a good poster boy and rallying point for the extreme right wing, but if it hadn't been specifically him, it would have been someone else. It's not like the world was a happy place until he came along. Like other people of his kind, he just commented on and opportunistically adapted and extremely simplified and exaggerated his views to the given historical situation to benefit from it. He was made by the situation, not the other way around.

As if this is new to anyone.  I thought everyone knew Hitler was a second rate artist in his youth.  He was also an undistinguished soldier, and even studied to be a priest, if I remember correctly. 

No, that priest thing, that was Stalin. It is very interesting to note that all these dictators did have very high artistic and/or "spiritual" goals they failed to achieve, just like I pointed out that one of our resident fanatics here, our good friend Saul also has this inclination towards cheap postcard kitsch art and pseudo-romantic copycat music, and that all fits in very nicely with his simplistic and extremist views. This is what this kind of person looks like. They aren't like the evil guys in movies.

[The new erato]

He was a good poster boy and rallying point for the extreme right wing, but if it hadn't been specifically him, it would have been someone else. It's not like the world was a happy place until he came along.

I think Hitler as a person had a decisive influence. Of course there were others of the same ilk, but I don't think it is a given that they would have managed the same. And the outcome; we might have become communists all of us, with an isolated and much weaker USA. Or whatever.....

[knight66]

Stalin also wrote poetry, especially in his earlier days. He was really quite a complex character, not by any means a cardboard cut-out baddie. His evil was much to do with his insecurities. Nor was he an ignorant peasant-wise, purblind man as has been taught for a long time in Western Europe.

Mike