Watercolour paintings and drawings by Adolf Hitler from about 100 years
ago are to go up for auction in southern Germany this month, an auction house
said Tuesday.
Some
of the works, which date from 1904 to 1922, are signed A. Hitler, the catalogue
of Nuremberg-based Weidler auctioneers showed on its website.
The
14 watercolours and drawings are expected to go under the
hammer between June 18 and 20 for between 1,000 euros and €45,000 each.
The
most expensive is a painting of King Ludwig II's Neuschwanstein Castle in
Bavaria, now a tourist magnet.
In
November a watercolour painted by a young Hitler in 1914 of the city hall in
Munich sold for 130,000 euros at a sale organised by the same auction house.
The
buyer wished to remain anonymous.
As a
budding young artist, Hitler applied to the Vienna Academy of Art but was
rejected. He continued to paint however, copying images from postcards that he
sold to tourists.
Experts
consider his work to be of mediocre quality.
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