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November 18,
2020 - updated May 24, 2022. The strange business of selling fakes, forgeries and other concoctions attributed to Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and other Nazi criminals. Introduction
VIENNA. January 25 – Described as artistically very poor and amateurish, several of Hitler's water-colors, which were painted before the war, when he was an unemployed house painter and decorator, have been purchased by an art dealer and sent to Berlin. Some of the pictures, which were bought under the instructions of an unnamed German, fetched £1,670 each. Hitler's watercolors. Some fetch £1,670 each. Chronicle, Adelaide (Australia), 27-01-1938. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article92475004To top of page. Hitler letter, Paris.
Vienna - Two
watercolours by Hitler found "The Viennese press reports that two watercolour drawings by Adolf Hitler, which were thought to be lost until now, have been found in Vienna. They were created during Hitler's time in Vienna and depict Franziskanerplein and Michaelis Church. One watercolour is signed "A. H.", the other: "A Hitler." The watercolours were given as a gift to the district leader Bürckel.”
Berlin - auctioning of
autographs Hitlers
auctioned in Nazi Germany. Jaap van den Born and Bart FM Droog. List of lists. List of all watercolors, paintings and sketches allegedly made by Adolf Hitler and known to be in existence before May 1945. Unpublished. Eenrum/Nijmegen, Preliminary version 1.3, 2020. To top of page.
Aquarellen van Hitler. Maasbode, Rotterdam, 30-03-1938. https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=KBNRC01:000087738:mpeg21:a0127 It is believed that Hitler only signed his works with “A. Hitler”. If this is correct, then the work signed “A.H.” is in all likelihood a forgery. To top of page. Expensive Hitlers The Bataviaasch Nieuwsblad, a newspaper based in the Dutch East Indies, reported in December 1938 on the sale of two alleged Hitlers in Germany earlier that year: Before Hitler took the fate of the German
people into his hands, he was, as everyone knows, a
painter. Some say one should actually call him a
"house painter". But this is a detail of absolutely
secondary importance that doesn't mean anything.
Just as it doesn't mean anything that Mussolini was
a schoolmaster and bricklayer during some periods of
his eventful life, and not an inspector of education
or an architect. Moreover, Hitler did paint, and
anyone who doubts this can go to the Maison de la
Culture in Paris, where at present two pictures are
hanging of works bearing Hitler's signature. They
are watercolours, and if we may believe the Intran [a
French(?) press agency - DM], the subject of
one of them is quite piquant, in the German sense of
the word. This canvas was sold two months ago in
Berlin for 15,000 Marks. The other came up for
auction in Dresden on 15 April and fetched 38,000
Marks, which is a coquetry sum even for a canvas
painted by a dictator.
To top of page. Exchange rates / value of money 01-01-1938 1 UK pound = 5 US dollar. 1 US dollar = 0.20 UK pound (in decimals) 1 UK pound = 130 French francs 1 French franc = 0.0077 French francs 1 UK pound = 29 Belgian francs 1 Belgian franc = 0.03 UK pound 1 UK pound = 95 Italian lire 1 Italian lire = 0.01 UK pound 1 UK pound = 8,98 NL guilder 1 NL guilder = 0.11 UK pound 1 UK pound = 12.42 Reichsmark 1 Reichsmark = 0.08 UK pound 1 UK pound = 22.40 Danish krone 1 Danish kron = 0.04 UK pound 1 UK pound = 19.90 Norwegian krone 1 Norwegian kron =0.05 UK pound 1 UK pound = 19.39 Swedish krone 1 Swedish kron = 0.05 UK pound 1 UK pound = 21.61 Swiss francs 1 Swiss franc =0.046 UK pound 1 UK pound = 86 Spanish pesetas 1 Sp. peseta = 0.0116 UK pound Roosevelt verlaagt den binnenlandschen zilverprijs. Algemeen Handelsblad, Amsterdam, 02-01-1938. https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010664125:mpeg21:a0212 Buitenlandsche beurzen. Wisselkoersen. Algemeen Handelsblad, Amsterdam, 02-01-1938. http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010664125:mpeg21:a0217CPI Inflation Calculator – for US dollars.This inflation calculator uses official records published by the U.S. Department of Labor. https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/ Convertisseur franc-euro. Pouvoir d'achat
de l'euro et du franc. Le
convertisseur franc-euro mesure l'érosion
monétaire due à l'inflation. Historischer Währungsrechner. Österreichische Nationalbank (Geldwertrechner). https://www.eurologisch.at/docroot/waehrungsrechner/#/ Value of the Guilder/Euro. International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. http://www.iisg.nl/hpw/calculate.php © Compilation Bart FM Droog, 2020-2022. |
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