Tuesday, November 30, 2010

What if Hitler had gotten into art school?

It seems, as a young man in 1910, Adolf was all touchy-feely and artsy-fartsy until he was rejected for admission, twice, by the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.  If he had gotten in, and been able to make a living as an artist, he might have stayed touchy-feely and artsy-fartsy instead of veering off into that whole totalitarianism thing. 

As a child, he played "Cowboys and Indians."  He attended a Catholic school located in an 11th-century Benedictine cloister, where the walls were engraved in a number of places with crests containing the symbol of the swastika. It was in Lambach that the eight-year-old Hitler sang in the church choir, took singing lessons, and even entertained the fantasy of one day becoming a priest.  link
Since when does an art school ever reject anybody?  (Any chance the people who rejected him at the art academy were jews?)

10 Paintings by Adolf Hitler

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