A weekend auction in Germany featured a watercolor of Munich’s old city hall which was believed to be painted by Adolf Hitler around 1914 and sold for 130,000 euros or $162,000 on Saturday.
Before Hitler’s rise to power, he created some 2,000 paintings as a starving artist. The painting was purchased in 1916 by the grandfather of the women who handed it over to the auction house. However, it appears that the original owner attempted to authenticate the work some time during Hitler’s Nazi regime, as an accompanying letter signed by Hitler’s adjutant, Albert Bormann, brother of the dictator’s private secretary …read more