THE PAINT

Hitler want to be an artist when he was a teenage boy. One neighbour of the family recalled: “When the postmaster asked him one day what he wanted to do for a living and whether he wouldn’t like to join the post office, he replied that it was intention to become a great artist.” (Kershaw, p. xxxi) He clung to this dream with amazing persistence. Even as dictator, he told his intimates that had his political “mission” not intervened, “I would have been one of Germany’s greatest architects.”

In 1907 he persuaded his mother to finance his attempt to study art in Vienna. He failed the entrance exam for the Academy of Fine Arts; the committee noted simply: "Sample drawing unsatisfactory." In Mein Kampf, Hitler later described this experience as an "abrupt blow": “[I was] so convinced that I would be successful that when I received my rejection, it struck me as a bolt from the blue.” He sought an explanation and was told by the Rector of the Academy that there was no doubt about his unsuitability for the school of painting, but that his talent plainly lay in architecture

 

These are the images painted by Hitler himself

The vagabond (Taken from www.historyinanhour.com )

 

  A ‘bolt from the skies’ (Taken from www.historyinanhour.com )

The Courtyard of the Old Residency in Munich 1914 (taken from www.en.wikipedia.org )

Mother Mary with the Holy Child Jesus Christ 1913 (Taken from www.en.wikipedia.org ) 

What amaze me is the spirit of never give up that he has. He tried and tried to be accepted in art school. He painted a lot of pictures. Even he still did not get to enter the Art School, I still think that he was a good artist.