A watercolour painting by Adolf Hitler from 1912, could fetch more than $30,000, or £20,093, when it hits the auction block, the Telegraph reports. Proving there certainly is no accounting for taste. The painting is being sold by Nate D. Sanders, a Los Angeles-based auction house specialising in memorabilia. The work is a still life […]
With the former US President George W. Bush admitting that he may not be “a great painter” – yet still exhibiting more than 24 portraits of world leaders that he met while president at his presidential library in Dallas, and continuing to make headlines for his new-found love of painting, even though – or perhaps […]
18 December 2014
It would seem that there is a new fashion for the paintings of World War II political ‘hobbyists’. First we had a century old painting by Adolf Hitler that was auctioned off at the Weidler auction house in Nuremberg last month. The work went under the hammer for €130,000, or £102,000; and now it is […]
A century old painting by Adolf Hitler was finally auctioned off at the Weidler auction house in Nuremberg. The work went under the hammer for €130,000, or £102,000 on Saturday. The watercolour painting dates from 1914 or 1915, the titled of which is ‘The Old Town Hall’ and is a depiction of the Munich registrar’s […]
A painting by Adolf Hitler’s will be auctioned off at the Weidler auction house in Nuremberg, Germany later this month, reports the Local. The watercolour painting dates from 1914 or 1915, the titled of which is ‘The Old Town Hall’ and is a depiction of the Munich registrar’s office. The work measures just over eight-and-half-by-11 […]
A sculpture of Adolf Hitler, praying on his knees by the well known Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, has created controversy after it was installed in the heart of the Warsaw ghetto. Cattelan is no stranger to altercations, his satirical sculpture, La Nona Ora (The Ninth Hour), depicts Pope John Paul II struck down by a […]
Seven paintings once owned by Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler have been discovered by Czech scholar in a Czech monastery These seven works form part of an art collection previously believed to be lost. Jiri Kuchar, who has written two books on Hitler’s art collection and discovered the collection in the course of his research, […]
Son of Col. had dreams of international success as painter With all of the coverage and analysis of the overthrow of the Gaddafi rule in Libya there has been almost no mention of Saif al Islam Gaddafi’s former career as an artist. I am not making this up! Like Hitler, Saif was a wannabee painter […]