Hitler Watercolor Sold for $162,000 at Auction

[jakeXT]

A watercolor of Munich's old city hall painted by Adolf Hitler a century ago has been sold for 130,000 euros ($162,000) at an auction in Germany.

Kathrin Weidler, director of the Weider auction house in Nuremberg, said the work attracted bidders from four continents and went to a buyer from the Middle East. She declined to elaborate.

The painting, which had been expected to fetch at least 50,000 euros, was sold by a pair of elderly sisters whose grandfather purchased it in 1916.

Hitler's paintings surface regularly, but the auction house said the 28 by 22 centimeter (11 by 8.5 inch) scene auctioned Saturday also includes the original bill of sale and a signed letter from the Hitler's adjutant, Albert Bormann, brother of the Nazi dictator's private secretary Martin Bormann.

Read more: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/national-international/hitler-watercolor-auction-painting-Germany-283589221.html

[misterhighwasted]

1. And Adolf could have been in the History Books as a great artist & painter..instead of.

Ruined his gift.

[cali]

3. he most certainly could not have. He was a shitty, maudlin painter

he didn't have much of a gift.

[Retrograde]

17. With some training, some mentors

and a bit of luck, who knows. For an untrained artist his work isn't that bad - I've seen worse. He'd probably end up as a minor Austrian or German painter of the 20s.

[MohRokTah]

6. He was a really mediocre artist. eom

[hunter]

16. Or at least a Thomas Kinkade...

... if I wanted to remove Hitler from politics I'd show the young man how to become a "Painter of Light™"

Maybe it would have kept him out of trouble to be a "successful" artist.

The trouble with time travel experiments, however, is that you never know how things will turn out.

A German military empire with Hitler sidelined might have developed the atomic bomb first... and then what?

[FLPanhandle]

2. To go back in time and make sure he was accepted in that art school.

History might have been a lot different

[jakeXT]

4. Sounds like Bill Burr in the last "comedians in cars getting coffee" episode

http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/bill-burr-smoking-past-the-band

[ctaylors6]

10. I thought that so many times when I read

Robert Edsel's books.

[WhiteAndNerdy]

19. That's what I was going to say. nt

[monmouth4]

5. Better than Bush though...LOL...n/t

[Mira]

7. There is that.

It's to cry for.

[edbermac]

8. He was no Bob Ross, that's for sure.

[underpants]

9. Yes ... and down this hallway, this is our Hitler

(Texts) Honey, get the coats

[Yo_Mama]

11. Who would want such a thing?

I just cannot comprehend ANYONE wanting to own this.

[3catwoman3]

13. Or anything else...

...associated with him in any way.

[Yo_Mama]

15. Well, yeah. Isn't it like paying someone $160,000 to curse your home?

I can understand people who buy relics of saints, or great artists, or great scientists. This is buying a relic of EVIL.

[joeybee12]

14. The painting is actually not awful...

But other than buying this for some sort of history museum or exhibit, why would anyone want something of this monster's?

[madinmaryland]

18. WTF? Hitler's watercooler sold for $162,000??? I'm surprised it actually survived...

Dammit, I need to get new glasses.

[TeamPooka]

22. I thought I saw the same thing. lol. nt

[Blue_Tires]

20. Maybe if more people bought Hitler's art back in the day

We would have been spared some of his later issues...

[LeftInTX]

21. I hope the proceeds from this sale go directly to an anti-genocide charity