Who is this artist?

[little_monkey]

Hint: since this is posted here, he was a politician.

You have ten guesses, and I will give you the answer in a few days. No chocolate to the winner(s).

[little_monkey]

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[Manwë Súlimo]

Hitler?

[little_monkey]

Hitler?

Cheater

[gharfish]

I heard that Hitler could not manage to draw / paint the human form - his notable (to instructors) weak area. He could handle architecture and landscapes well enough, but not portraiture. Surely at least the well-rendered mother and child, bottom of post 2 must be someone else's (??)


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[Raphael]

Without looking at other responses: Adolf Hitler.


What I think of the man is unprintable, but he was a pretty good artist.

[Crow]

It's by Hitler. The landscape and architecture is stuff good. The madonna and child is....well, he never would have gotten a Famous Artist's School scholarship on that one.

[little_monkey]

I heard that Hitler could not manage to draw / paint the human form - his notable (to instructors) weak area. He could handle architecture and landscapes well enough, but not portraiture. Surely at least the well-rendered mother and child, bottom of post 2 must be someone else's (??)


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Apparently not. It's his own. Surprisingly, Hitler was a devout Catholic. And when he gained power in 1933, there was a cosy relationship between his regime and the RCC.

See http://emperors-clothes.com/vatican/cpix.htm

[rogue06]

Apparently not. It's his own. Surprisingly, Hitler was a devout Catholic. And when he gained power in 1933, there was a cosy relationship between his regime and the RCC.

See http://emperors-clothes.com/vatican/cpix.htm

Hitler wasn't a "devout Catholic." He saw religion as just another tool to justify his sick, twisted views.

[fm93]

Apparently not. It's his own. Surprisingly, Hitler was a devout Catholic. And when he gained power in 1933, there was a cosy relationship between his regime and the RCC.

See http://emperors-clothes.com/vatican/cpix.htm

Hitler was NOT a Christian. He lied in order to gain the acceptance of a pre-dominantly Christian Germany. In reality, Hitler thought Christianity was the scum of the Earth. His secretary Martin Bormann recorded him as saying the following:

The best thing is to let Christianity die a natural death.... When understanding of the universe has become widespread... Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity.... Christianity has reached the peak of absurdity.... And that's why someday its structure will collapse.... ...the only way to get rid of Christianity is to allow it to die little by little.... Christianity the liar.... We'll see to it that the Churches cannot spread abroad teachings in conflict with the interests of the State (pg. 49-52).

The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges: the pox and Christianity.

I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie. Our epoch in the next 200 years will certainly see the end of the disease of Christianity. (pg. 278)

From Hitler's Secret Conversations 1941-1944.

[little_monkey]

Hitler was NOT a Christian. He lied in order to gain the acceptance of a pre-dominantly Christian Germany. In reality, Hitler thought Christianity was the scum of the Earth. His secretary Martin Bormann recorded him as saying the following:

From Hitler's Secret Conversations 1941-1944.

I don't know about Secret Conversations. Just the title sounds fishy. From Hitler's own words:

In the ranks of the movement, the most devout Protestant could sit beside the most devout Catholic, without coming into the slightest conflict with his religious convictions. The mighty common struggle which both carried on against the destroyer of Aryan humanity had, on the contrary, taught them mutually to respect and esteem one another. And yet, in these very years, the movement carried on the bitterest fight against the [Catholic] Centre [party], though never on religious, but exclusively on national, racial, and economic-political grounds. The results spoke in our favor, just as today they testify against the know-it-alls.

– A. Hitler, Mein Kampf

[gharfish]

Apparently not. It's his own. Surprisingly, Hitler was a devout Catholic. And when he gained power in 1933, there was a cosy relationship between his regime and the RCC.

See http://emperors-clothes.com/vatican/cpix.htm

I didn't think Mary and Jesus on that one, so religion didn't come into my view. No, I thought it was just generic woman with her infant in a romantic and modern garden. I had heard that Hitler could not manage to paint people, and yet that one is not bad. Other than the woman's hand being too large, it isn't a bad effort at all.


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[Manwë Súlimo]

I don't know about Secret Conversations. Just the title sounds fishy. From Hitler's own words:

In the ranks of the movement, the most devout Protestant could sit beside the most devout Catholic, without coming into the slightest conflict with his religious convictions. The mighty common struggle which both carried on against the destroyer of Aryan humanity had, on the contrary, taught them mutually to respect and esteem one another. And yet, in these very years, the movement carried on the bitterest fight against the [Catholic] Centre [party], though never on religious, but exclusively on national, racial, and economic-political grounds. The results spoke in our favor, just as today they testify against the know-it-alls.

– A. Hitler, Mein Kampf

You realize Mein Kampf was published to be widely read among the people of Germany? Do you think Hitler would go against hundreds of years of Christian heritage for all of Germany to read? Do you really believe politicians mean what they say when they speak to the public?

[little_monkey]

You realize Mein Kampf was published to be widely read among the people of Germany? Do you think Hitler would go against hundreds of years of Christian heritage for all of Germany to read?

It is more likely that he put up with the religion for expedient reasons. Nonetheless the church did very little to oppose him, and in certain circumstances, enabled him to get to power.

Do you really believe politicians mean what they say when they speak to the public?

Shame on you for thinking otherwise...

[Manwë Súlimo]

It is more likely that he put up with the religion for expedient reasons. Nonetheless the church did very little to oppose him, and in certain circumstances, enabled him to get to power.

Exactly! He wasn't Christian at all. He used the church and the church whored itself out. Thank God people like Bonhoeffer and Mueller existed to say no, though it cost their lives. Did you mean to prove my point?