Three very mediocre paintings with naturalistic motifs will soon be put up for sale in an auction house in Berlin, and the interest of both the buyers and the media is already huge.
the Reason must not be found in the maleriernes quality, but rather of the artist who stands behind it. The pictures are painted by one of the world’s worst dictators Adolf Hitler. It writes the BBC.
the Paintings were in the beginning of the 20. century, when Hitler worked as a painter in Munich.
Photo: Fabrizio Bensch/Ritzau Scanpix
Before the first world war, in which Hitler fought, supported himself as a labourer and an artist in the austrian capital, Vienna. In the period he painted a part of the postcard, but he also produced a portion paintings with naturalistic motifs.
In the book Mein Kampf claim dikatatoren that in some periods he produced up to three paintings a day.
A great painter he was, however, never, and the reason he was rejected from the art academy in Vienna twice.
After he came to power in 1933 he ordered a supposedly all his paintings destroyed, but several hundred still exist. A big part of the paintings are today in the us army’s custody, after they were confiscated at the end of the second world war. For the same reason, the public has never seen most of his works.
Photo: Fabrizio Bensch/Ritzau Scanpix
Shareholders have said that even if the works do not possess any significant artistic value, so they can still be sold for several hundred thousand euros. They expect that the demand among buyers in the Storbritannuen, Scandinavia, the UNITED states and Russia is big.
In 2014, was one of Hitler’s paintings sold for 130,000 euros at an auction in southern germany, the equivalent of 970.000 dollars.
Photo: Fabrizio Bensch/Ritzau Scanpix
‘If you go along the Seine river and see 100 artists, 80 of them be better than it is here. The value of these works and the media interest is because of the name at the bottom’, says Heinz-Joachim Maeder, who is the spokesperson for the auction house Kloss in Berlin to Reuters.
the Sellers of the paintings are angliveligt an elderly couple, who want to be anonymous.
Adolf Hitler’s signature can turn out to bring large sums at auction in Berlin. Photo: Fabrizio Bensch/Ritzau Scanpix
