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The Hitler Forgery Industry

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2007  | Auctions |  Certificates of Authenticity

The strange business of selling fakes, forgeries and other concoctions attributed to Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and other Nazi criminals.

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"Hitler watercolor" in Czechia (CZ, March 2007)

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"Hitler watercolor" in Czechia (March 2007)

Radio Prague International reported about an alleged Hitler watercolor, offered by a Czech online auction.


The only picture available is this one, which seems to be a screenshot from a tv item about this auction. Click to enlarge.

"The picture seems to depict a farmer in a cap and shirtsleeves tending to a small ground fire with a stick. It was painted in watercolor, mostly in shades of brown and tan. In the lower right hand side of the painting, the initials AH.”

(...) "The unnamed painting is on offer for 100,000 crowns, or about 5,000 US dollars, at an online auction site. In a statement given to the newspaper Mlada Fronta Dnes, the anonymous seller explained that he had inherited the painting from his grandfather, who co-owned an auction house during the first Czechoslovak Republic."

"Hitler watercolor" goes up for auction on Czech website. Radio Prague International, Prague, 01-93-2007.
https://english.radio.cz/hitler-watercolor-goes-auction-czech-website-8612287

In our view this work is a very crude fake. 

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