Adolf Hitler was a good Artist

Thanks to Pro for the excellent topic. Let's note that good artist is definitionally subjective, rife with prejudgement. Artists are generally the makers of the art we like & we define our notions of what's enjoyable or high quality, what's good, what's art- around the art that gives us pleasure, carefully excluding the art we hate. That said, there are some measures of Adoph's job as an artist, his professional conduct as an artist we can evaluate with some degree of objectivity: For example, One of the hallmarks of pursuing life as an artist is the struggle. Starving artist is a stereotype, a commonplace, even today as it was so then. To be a good artist one must be persistent: your work may not be recognized all your life, may not be recognized until you're long dead, may never be recognized... and yet the work continues. Hitler quit. Adolph caved. Leaving the life of an artist to pursue a lucrative career in politics is capitulation, the easier rejection of one's identity as artist- with all the advantages and disadvantages that artist entails. Hitler continued to to think of himself as an artist for the rest of his life but would the community of artistic endeavors in Germany or elsewhere in the Western World continue to view Adolph as an artist? Decidedly not. Adolph robbed, imprisoned, and killed millions of people, including many artists. Adolph often targeted particular artists - cultural icons and those artists Adolph considered degenerate. Adolph often targeted artists in general, as a profession of non-conformists and malcontents. Here is a short list of some artists killed at the Shoah: https://en.m.wikipedia.org... We might reasonably suppose that the professional standards applying to artists are as lax, as laissez-faire as any. Nevertheless, we might also reasonably suppose that robbing, imprisoning, or killing professional colleagues, particularly en masse, would & ought be consistently likely to disqualify applicants for any professional consideration in almost any context. In any community of professional artists, censorship is seldom smiled upon & the destruction of another man's work is often intolerable. But the Nazis burned many books and Adolph banned many books in many categories: * The works of traitors, emigrants and authors from foreign countries who believe they can attack and denigrate the new Germany (H.G. Wells, Rolland); * The literature of Marxism, Communism and Bolshevism; * Pacifist literature; * Literature with liberal, democratic tendencies and attitudes, and writings supporting the Weimar Republic (Rathenau, Heinrich Mann); * All historical writings whose purpose is to denigrate the origin, the spirit and the culture of the German Volk, or to dissolve the racial and structural order of the Volk, or that denies the force and importance of leading historical figures in favor of egalitarianism and the masses, and which seeks to drag them through the mud (Emil Ludwig); * Writings of a philosophical and social nature whose content deals with the false scientific enlightenment of primitive Darwinism and Monism (Hackel, Benedict); * Books that advocate "art" which is decadent, bloodless, or purely constructivist (Grosz, Dix, Bauhaus, Mendelsohn); * Writings on sexuality and sexual education which serve the egocentric pleasure of the individual and thus, completely destroy the principles of race and Volk (Hirschfeld); * The decadent, destructive and Volk-damaging writings of "Asphalt and Civilization" literati: (Graf, H. Mann, Stefan Zweig, Wassermann, Franz Blei); * Literature by Jewish authors, regardless of the field; * Popular entertainment literature that depicts life and life"s goals in a superficial, unrealistic and sickly sweet manner, based on a bourgeois or upper class view of life; * Nationalistic and patriotic kitsch in literature. * Pornography and explicit literature by Jewish authors. * All books degrading German purity. https://en.wikipedia.org... Adolph mocked and destroyed the works of many artists. "the [1937] Degenerate Art Exhibition was organized by the Nazi Party in Munich to counterpoint the Great German Art Exhibition. It was recorded that over one million attended the exhibition in its first six weeks of showings. The collection had 650 works of art that were extracted from German museums and displayed them as "degenerate art." If a piece was found to insult Germany, to fail to apply natural form or classical style, or to depict real or perceived weakness of character, mental disease or racial impurity, then it fell under the category of degenerate art. Paintings were hung close together in uncomfortably small rooms, and were accompanied by hand written labels that often provided inaccurate information and condemning remarks. The political goal of the exhibit was to counteract the movement of modernism and claim that it was a scheme for people who were against Germany.... Nazi Art was defined as racially pure, easily understood, and depictions of people who exemplified the German race. The Great German Art Exhibit served to abolish any use of Modernism, Expressionism, Dada, New Objectivity, Futurism, and Cubism that had existed since 1910." - Wikipedia, Paintings by Adolph Hitler Would you be a good banker if you quit banking in your twenties? Would you be a good farmer if most farmers found you particularly lethal to farmers? Would you be a good banker if most bankers didn't endorse you as a banker? Are you likely to have been a good farmer if most of the farmers around you thought you sucked at farming? Well, Adolph sucked at artist. Ask the artist themselves. Wouldn't we have to agree that many, many works have been created in reaction to Hitler's life and that the overwhelming preponderance of that reaction has been rejection, condemnation, special malediction against the man and his history?