Prior to World War One, in which he fought, Hitler worked in Vienna as a casual labourer and an artist, drawing postcards and paintings. He was twice rejected from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.
Before World War One, in which he fought, Hitler worked in Vienna as a casual labourer and an artist, drawing postcards and paintings. He was twice rejected from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.
The Vienna Jewish Museum restituted a Nazi-looted painting to the artist’s grandnieces. (JTA) — The Vienna Jewish Museum restituted a Nazi-looted painting to the artist’s grandnieces.
Hitler described himself as an artistic genius – despite having twice been rejected by the Vienna Academy of Art. Before his rise to power, he struggled to make a living selling amateur ...
Deborah Rothschild, who curated an exhibition examining Hitler’s early years in Vienna, held at the Williams College Museum of Art in Massachusetts in 2002, agrees. His paintings, she tells me ...
The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna rejected him twice, in 1907 and 1908, because of his "unfitness for painting". The director recommended that Hitler study architecture, but he lacked the academic ...