May 30 2008
Ryan
The show, at the White Cube gallery in Mayfair, is called If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy Would We Be. It is asking the question, if Hitler had become a successful painter, would the world be a much better place?
Hitler struggled as an artist in Vienna between 1910 and 1913 and was was rejected twice by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (1907–1908), citing “unfitness for painting”.
He struggled as a painter in Vienna, copying scenes from postcards and selling his paintings to merchants and tourists. Hitler has estimated that he sold more than 1,000 paintings, mostly for small amounts to help him get by.
After being rejected a second time by the Academy of Arts, Hitler ran out of money. In 1909, he lived in a shelter for the homeless. By 1910, he had settled into a house for poor working men
Of the exhibitions artists, Jake Chapman was born in 1966 in Cheltenham, Dinos Chapman in 1962 in London. They live and work in London. They have exhibited extensively, including solo shows at Tate Liverpool (2006), Kunsthaus Bregenz (2005), Museum Kunst Palast Düsseldorf (2003) and Modern Art Oxford (2003). Group exhibitions have included ARS 06, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki, the Turner Prize, Tate Britain (2003) and PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2000).
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Hitler had a deep appreciation for art. Had he not been rejected (twice) as an art student perhaps his madness would have been expressed on canvas rather than manifesting itself in the vast destruction and loss of life of WWII under his misguided leadership. |
Artists buy Hitler’s art just to add rainbows and smilies to it…
The show, at the White Cube gallery in Mayfair, is called If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy Would We Be. It is asking the question, if Hitler had become a successful painter, would the world be a much better place?…