A nearly 100-year-old watercolor painting produced by the Nazi dictator, Adolf Hitler, has been unexpectedly sold for USD 161,000 (130,000 euros) at Nuremberg auction.
The artwork, which shows the Old Town Hall in Munich and bears Fuhrer’s lucid signature at the bottom left corner of it, was sold to an unidentified private Middle Eastern buyer.
Hitler’s painting was accompanied by the original bill of sale dated September 25, 1916, along with a letter signed by Albert Bormann, brother of Hitler’s notorious private secretary, Martin Bormann. The first owner of the painting had once inquired about the authenticity of the artwork from Hitler’s office in Nazi-era.
The watercolor painting belonged to two anonymous pairs of German sisters whose grandfather paid for in 1916. According to Katherine Weidler, the manager of Weidler Auction House, various individuals from America to Asia had shown curiosity about this special artwork.
The auction, held in the city of Nuremberg, had set the initial bid at 4,500 euros, and expected the price to grow up to 50,000 euros. Surprisingly, the art work was finally sold at the ultimate 130,000-euro (USD 161,000) bid which is quite unprecedented regarding the previous Hitler’s auctioned paintings.
In his Vienna years (1908-1913), before joining the Bavarian Army at the outbreak of World War I, Adolf Hitler produced hundreds of paintings and postcards, and sold them to earn money for his daily life. In his frantic autobiography, Mein Kampf, he narrated that how his high hopes for becoming a professional artist was shattered by receiving continuous dismissals from Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts.
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