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ENTERTAINMENT
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER6, 2002
Hitler's artistic past on display
The Associated Press
ILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. The images of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich forever will be linked with evil. The menace of the swastika, the perfect but intimidating columns of marching Nazi soldiers.
An exhibit at Williams College Museum of Art argues that it wasn't a study of warfare, politics and military strategy that influenced the background and symbols of Hitler's visions.
It was art: Wagner's operas; the dark and simple work of German painters; Viennese architecture.
"Prelude to a Nightmare: Art, Politics, and Hitler's Early Years in Vienna 1906-1913" traces the dictator's artistic aspirations, disappointments and influences during his seven years in the Austrian city.
The exhibit uses about 275 paintings, posters and clips of film from Nazi rallies to illustrate art's influence on Hitler. Displays
of anti-Semitic pamphlets that circulated around Vienna in the early 1900s show that Hitler mimicked the pamphlets for his own propaganda decades later.
Two years after visiting Vienna for the first time, Hitler moved there in 1908 as a 19-year-old aspiring artist.
A friend encouraged him to sell his paintings — mostly postcards and watercolors of Vienna landscapes — some of which are displayed in the Williams exhibit. According to a memoir kept by the friend and on display at the exhibit, some of Hitler's highest paying and most loyal customers were Jews.
Twice rejected from the city's art academy, he drifted, staying in homeless shelters, attending operas and watching sessions of Parliament.
His work never rose to critical acclaim.
"He was known for copying from other images," said Deborah Rothsehild, the curator who organized the Williams exhibit.
"He had no originality."
While living the life of a struggling artist, Hitler was drawn to the politics of the pan-German party, a right-wing, anti-Semitic group that promoted the so-called superiority of an Aryan race.
The artwork embraced by the pan-Germans — folksy paintings that asserted German dominance — was among Hitler's favorite. He railed against modern art.
As Führer, Hitler staged an art show of "degenerate art," comparing works by artists such as van Gogh and Picasso to images of human deformity.
The Williams exhibit, mostly strung together with pieces on loan from museums in Vienna, shows original works and reproductions of the art to which Hitler responded. There are the images he loved — like the painting of drunken monks by Eduard von Grutzner—and those he loathed, including a self-portrait of Vincent van Gogh.
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Canseco
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