Piece of s*** painting by Adolf Hitler features in new art exhibition

[steve2470]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/italy/articles/painting-by-adolf-hitler-features-in-new-art-exhibition/




A museum in northern Italy has unveiled an oil painting by Adolf Hitler as part of an exhibition exploring the link between art and madness.

The deceased dictator’s work has been described as a “piece of s***” by the acerbic art critic Vittorio Sgarbi, who curated the exhibition at Museo Di Salo in Lombardy.

Hitler’s oil painting, which is on loan from a private German collector, has never been exhibited before.

“It’s a piece of s*** aesthetically,” Sgarbi told Italian news agency, ANSA. “[It] says a lot about his psyche: there is no grandeur here, only misery.”

[dembotoz]

1. As a link between art and madness sure ok

Sounds interesting

[bdamomma]

2. Hitler is getting a lot of play these days

isn't he? He was a murderer, and insane.

[Siwsan]

3. In a documentary about Hitler, they remarked on his shortcomings in drawing human beings

His renditions were said to reflect no life.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Was Just Going To Say That!

He got rejected from the Vienna School of Fine Arts because he was so bad at people. Everything i've ever seen on those docs is buildings and landscapes.

[Siwsan]

6. I found this, on line

It's not the one I saw in the documentary. That was more of an 18th century military figure.

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[Hekate]

7. It's really sad he didn't get to go to art school; he might have been too busy for politics...

...if he could have posed as a brooding post-WW I artist wondering why his crap was not selling.

[steve2470]

8. supposedly the Vienna art school recommended politics for him

Twice he was snubbed by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, which encouraged him to abandon art and pursue a career in politics instead – and we all know how that ended.

from same link in OP

[Idoru]

9. Thanks, Vienna Art School

I sincerely wish you would have given him a break, he wasn't that bad.

[Igel]

10. So what you're saying is that artists aren't necessarily good career counselors? n/t

[steve2470]

12. LOL they should have put him on staff doing something harmless! :) nt

[bathroommonkey76]

5. The guy at the desk looks like Donald Trump! WTF! LOL

[Iggo]

11. A sick fuck who draws shitty pictures.

I used to know a bunch of those back when I was a low-life.

Sure as fuck didn't make their pictures worth looking at.

[linuxman]

13. Everyone's a critic