page_title: Paintings by Adolf Hitler
section_title: Hitler's style and influences
hierarchical_section_title: Paintings by Adolf Hitler / Hitler's style and influences
caption_attribution_description: English: Tree at a track with a lake by Adolf Hitler from 1911
context_page_description: Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party in Germany in the years leading up to and during World War II, was also a painter. He produced hundreds of works and sold his paintings and postcards to try to earn a living during his Vienna years. Despite little success professionally, he continued to paint throughout the whole of his life.
  A number of his paintings were recovered after the second World War and have been sold at auction for tens of thousands of dollars. Others were seized by the United States Army and are still held by that government.
context_section_description: Hitler's style was very calculated when representing architecture in his paintings. Instead of progressing in his artistic influence, his works copied the artists of the nineteenth century and other masters preceding him. He claimed to be the synthesis of many artistic movements but drew primarily from Greco Roman classicism, the Italian Renaissance, and Neoclassicism. He liked the technical ability of these artists, as well as the understandable symbolism. He called Rudolf von Alt his greatest teacher. The two show similar subject matter and use of color, but Alt displays fantastical landscapes giving equal if not more attention to nature and the surrounding environment than to the architecture.
caption: Tree at a track by Adolf Hitler, 1911
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