Hello Everyone!! re: Schicklegruber's paintings
Ed Fenning (ed361@yahoo.com)
Mon, 25 Oct 1999 16:01:26 -0700 (PDT)
Some of these posts seem to suppose that Alois
“Schicklegruber’s” paintings are worth discussion –
well they’re not (my opinion). The biography by John
Toland, I think it was, states that he was rejected
twice by the art academy in Vienna. I saw two or
three reproduced in a magazine years back and it is
easy to see why. What I remember are very artificial
cityscape scenes, either devoid of people, or having
people depicted as the crude figures found in
architectural thumbnail sketches. We’re talking about
paintings so very amateurish, and mediocre that they
are beneath the quality of the usual crap that is hung
in the offices of doctors, real estate agents, and
suburban banks. There was nothing remotely close to
cantaloup and flower still lives in his oily brush
hacking; nor was there kitsch either (like fabric
paintings of little blond kids with big dewey eyes
wearing Hitler youth uniforms – actually that’s
something Mel Brooks probably would have thought of!)
For those interested in “the little corporal[’s]”*
paintings there’s a book I found surfing Yahoo (key
words: Adolf Hitler paintings) whose author and title
is:
Price, Billy F. Adolf Hitler as Painter and Drawer,
Gallant, Switzerland, 1983
This should be a real “hoot.”
Some gallery in Scandanavia sold a “Schicklegruber” to
an Austrian collector for about $131,000 (U.S.).
It sold for lower than what the gallery had expected.
That amount of money would also not go as far as one
would like after the IRS took it’s cut – but that is
stating the obvious.
*as referred to by Winston Churchill in “The Gathering
Storm”; vol. 1 of “The Second World War”
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