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Vienna State Opera, painted by Hitler in 1912. Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945, was also a painter. [1] During his Vienna years (1908–1913) he made his living as a professional artist and produced hundreds of works, but had little commercial success.
Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in Austria. At an early age, Hitler showed interest in the arts. His father hated the idea of his son becoming an artist instead of a government official like himself. Hitler's father tried to beat the idea out of him every time art or anything related was brought up. [2]
File:Hitler in the Odeonsplatz Munich 2 August 1914 by Heinrich Hoffmann.jpg File:Hitler with other German soldiers.jpg File:Hitler, Göring, Goebbels and Hess.jpg
Hitler's favorite painter was Adolf Ziegler and Hitler owned a number of his works. Landscape painting featured prominently in the Great German Art exhibition. [ 33 ] While drawing on German Romanticism traditions, it was to be firmly based on real landscape, Germans' Lebensraum , without religious moods. [ 34 ]
KENT, England, March 13 (Reuters) - An album containing never-before-seen candid photos of German Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler and party members will be auctioned on Wednesday, according to the ...
Adolf Hitler rehearsing poses for his speeches in photos reportedly taken in 1927 Nine photographs taken by Hoffmann reveal how Adolf Hitler rehearsed poses and hand gestures for his public speeches. He asked Hoffmann to take these shots so he could see what he would look like to his audience, then used them to help shape his performances ...
IN FOCUS: Photographer Lee Miller, the subject of a major new film starring Kate Winslet, used her camera lens to pioneer a new way of seeing conflict. Later, broken by what she saw during the ...
Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 in Braunau am Inn, a town in Austria-Hungary (present-day Austria), close to the border with the German Empire. [13] [14] He was the fourth of six children born to Alois Hitler and his third wife, Klara Pölzl. Three of Hitler's siblings—Gustav, Ida, and Otto—died in infancy. [15]