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Feb 21, 2008

Paintings by Adolf Hitler discovered in Norway

Original front watercolour painting:


















Example of Disney dwarf cartoon painting fount behind the topmost landscape painting after de-framing:




















Two watercolors and a pencil drawing by Adolf Hitler are displayed at an auction in Toensberg, Norway, Tuesday July 13, 1999 where they were sold for $80,400 to an anonymous collector from Austria. The three pieces, all signed, were done more that 85 years ago after the future Nazi dictator failed to gain admission to art school in Vienna as a young man



Auctioneer's assistant Jemma Taylor displays some of the Adolf Hitler paintings going up for auction at Jeffrey's Auctioneers, Lostwithiel, southwestern England Monday Sept. 18, 2006. The 21 watercolours and sketches, produced between 1916 and 1918, will go under the hammer on Sept. 26, and are expected to fetch up to 100,000 pounds (US$190,000; 150,000 euro).




Auctioneer Ian Morris holds a a painting titled "The Church of Preux-au-Bois," which sold for US$19,975, during an auction of watercolors and sketches attributed to Adolf Hitler, in Lostwithiel, England, Tuesday Sept. 26, 2006. The 21 watercolors and two sketches, most of them landscapes, sold for a total of $220,000 at an auction Tuesday that was briefly interrupted by a pair of self-styled "comedy terrorists."

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