Hitler's painting to go up for sale
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A 1914 watercolour attributed to Adolf Hitler could fetch up to 50,000 euros ($62,685) when it is auctioned later this week, a German auction house chief said on Tuesday (November 18).
Auctioneer Kathrin Weidler said the painting entitled "Standesamt und Altes Rathaus Muenchen" (Civil Registry Office and Old Town Hall of Munich) is one of about 2,000 works Hitler painted from about 1905 to 1920 as a struggling young artist.
Asked about criticism that it is tasteless to auction the Nazi dictator's works, generally considered to be of limited artistic merit, Weidler said complaints should be addressed to the sellers - an unidentified pair of German sisters in their 70s.
Hitler wrote in his autobiography "Mein Kampf" that his hopes as a young man of becoming an artist were dashed by his repeated rejection by Vienna's Academy of Fine Arts.
Weidler Auction House in Nuremberg, where Hitler held mass Nazi party rallies from 1933 t
A 1914 watercolour attributed to Adolf Hitler could fetch up to 50,000 euros ($62,685) when it is auctioned later this week, a German auction house chief said on Tuesday (November 18).
Auctioneer Kathrin Weidler said the painting entitled "Standesamt und Altes Rathaus Muenchen" (Civil Registry Office and Old Town Hall of Munich) is one of about 2,000 works Hitler painted from about 1905 to 1920 as a struggling young artist.
Asked about criticism that it is tasteless to auction the Nazi dictator's works, generally considered to be of limited artistic merit, Weidler said complaints should be addressed to the sellers - an unidentified pair of German sisters in their 70s.
Hitler wrote in his autobiography "Mein Kampf" that his hopes as a young man of becoming an artist were dashed by his repeated rejection by Vienna's Academy of Fine Arts.
Weidler Auction House in Nuremberg, where Hitler held mass Nazi party rallies from 1933 t