Real History and Adolf Hitler, the Artist The paintings of Adolf Hitler your Hitler index today’s ” AR-online” again Washington DC, (page W26) The Art of Evil Half a century later, the paintings of Adolf Hitler are still a federal case By Marc Fisher THE best of the paintings shows a war-torn streetscape — a lamppost leaning away from a shrapnel-nicked brick building. The background reveals the facade of a gutted church, its purpose burned away.
There is no one on the street; life has been chased, bombed, swept from this Belgian village where the soldier-artist found such devastation. The artist was good enough to make his living at this for some years. But he realized he was not going to make his mark as a painter. He changed careers and became far more successful in another line of work. His name was Adolf Hitler . The United States of America claims ownership of these four Hitler watercolors.
So does an art collector in Texas who bought the rights to the paintings from the children of Hitler’s personal photographer. A lawsuit over the watercolors has been slouching through federal courts in Texas and Washington for 18 years. There are lawyers who spent much of their careers on the case, retired and still come