Watercolor sold at auction of Hitler, probably fake

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October 4, 2010 The most expensive painting of the 16 watercolors, sold recently at auction in the UK and attributed to the brush Fuhrer Adolf Hitler's Germany, most likely a fake, according to RIA Novosti " with reference to Austrian newspaper Kleine Zeitung.
   This is a work of "Borough on Main" (Ortschaft am Main), dating from 1910, which was sold for 10,000 pounds. According to the newspaper, on the canvas shown is not "spot on Main" and the Styrian town Judenburg. Moreover, in watercolors painted bridge that was built only in 1938-39.
  "Thus the picture could have been written at the earliest in 1939," - told the museum director of the city Judenburg, historian Michael Shiestl. He seems incredible that Hitler at that time still had dabbled in painting.
  Recall trades, in which were sold to "Hitler's work" was organized by auction house Mullock's and passed on Thursday at Ludlow Racecourse in Shropshire in western England. A total of 16 works went under the hammer at 105.8 thousand pounds (about 120 thousand euros).

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The works were found in a closet in one of the estates in the north of Austria, a lawyer who bought the property.
  The vast majority of watercolor dated 1908 the year when the future Fuhrer was trying to start a career as an artist and go to the Vienna Academy of Arts. Twice, in 1907 and in 1908, Hitler tried to enter the Vienna Academy of Art, but could not overcome a creative contest. It is believed that he could not paint portraits, whose presence in the portfolio of the artist is one of the main requirements of the Academy. However, until the First World War, Hitler tried to paint professionally: he painted postcards, ads, and even sold some of his watercolors.
  Some historians argue that if a dictator took place as a man of art, then all subsequent world history might have been otherwise.
  According to experts, brush Hitler belongs to 3000 jobs. But to this day they remained only a few hundred. The representative of Mullock's said that the picture is very difficult to sell in Europe because, firstly, in many countries, such trade is subject to a ban on the glorification of Nazism, and secondly, many auction houses belong to Jews, who on principle do not want to sell products of the Nazi leader .
  Recall that in the spring of 2009 collector paid 106,000 euros for 13 paintings by Hitler. While the auction house Mullock's in the county of Shropshire in western England, who conducted the auction, expected to peak at 65,000 euros.
  Also in 2009 Hitler watercolor "White Church in Warsaw" was sold for 24,000 euros. "Ruined Mill" was bought for 11,000 euros, and the painting "The House at the bridge over the river" cost to the buyer in 7000 euros.
   In 2006 at auction in the UK under the hammer went 21 work of Hitler, the total value of transactions exceeded 150 thousand euros.
  However, some buyers of paintings Hitler used them not for their intended purpose. So, in 2008, famous British conceptual artist Jake and Dinos Chapman bought watercolors Hitler, painted on their own taste, then put in a London gallery White Cube. "
  The exhibition is called "How happy we would be if Hitler was a hippie." Top faded landscapes Fuhrer artists have painted the rainbow, skies with bright stars, glowing hearts, and smiling faces. After such transformation of Hitler's watercolors surged six-fold and were worth 1.4 million dollars.
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