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Paintings painted by Adolf Hitler

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.

A number of his paintings were recovered after World War II and have been sold at auctions for tens of thousands of dollars. Others were seized by the United States Army and are still in U.S. government possession.

Style and influences

Hitler's preferred subject was architecture, which he represented using "an amalgam of conventional styles".^[2] Instead of progressing, his works copied from nineteenth century and other artists.^[3] He drew primarily from Greco Roman classicism, the Italian Renaissance, and Neoclassicism.

He liked the technical ability displayed by this art as well as the comprehensible symbolism.^[4] He called Rudolf