International Campaign for Real History

Wednesday, November 22, 2000; updated Sunday, May 22, 2005

OFFERED FOR SALE
A 1919 painting and 1924 sketch by Adolf Hitler

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painting

 

Hitler's 1919 painting of Laon, France. Submitted to art academy. Click the image to see enlarged front and back view of this work.

Price $22,000

sketch

Clearly a genuine and very accomplished Hitler sketch of the Bratwürstglöckchen alley in Nuremberg, signed by him in 1924

Sold $7,500

signature

HITLER signed the reverse of the watercolour sketch (left) as above: "Meiner lieben Löttl, Dein Wolf". The owner informs us: Both items came from Rudolf Pfeiffer-Bechstein, widower of Lotte Bechstein. The Bechsteins were early Hitler benefactors. Carl Bechstein (1826 Gotha &endash; 1900 Berlin) was married to Louise Döring, in 1856.  Their son Edwin Bechstein married Helene Capito (1876 Düsseldorf &endash; 1951 Berchtesgaden).  Edwin Bechstein and Helene had a son and a daughter (Liselotte = Lotte). [Click for another Hitler painting from the Bechstein collection]

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