DBWI: What if Adolf Hitler had more success in his life?

For the ones that are not fans of art, Adolf Hitler was somewhat famous Austro-German Neorealist and had a fist fight with the Russo-French Surrealist Wassily Kandinsky in an art exhibition in Vienna in the late 30s, he never really had much success with his paintings and after his mother Klara died in 1942 he joined some very questionable anti semite groups. Most of his public was composed of another WWI veterans who liked his representations of the conflict, but he never really got attention of the general public. My question is: Could Hitler had more success in his career?
 
For the ones that are not fans of art, Adolf Hitler was somewhat famous Austro-German Neorealist and had a fist fight with the Russo-French Surrealist Wassily Kandinsky in an art exhibition in Vienna in the late 30s, he never really had much success with his paintings and after his mother Klara died in 1942 he joined some very questionable anti semite groups. Most of his public was composed of another WWI veterans who liked his representations of the conflict, but he never really got attention of the general public. My question is: Could Hitler had more success in his career?

He could if he had moved to Brazil, they loved his work over there and were more willing to tolerate his personality. He's still considered an incredibly important figure in Brazilian art to this day influancing entire generations of artists there.
 
Hitler wasn't accepted into art school, which eventually led him into the German Army after living destitute in Vienna, and so on.....
But, if you look at some of his art, he wasn't too bad. What killed his career was his inability to draw people. If he worked to improve that, maybe he would have had some success.
 
I'd say his inability to draw people became a strength after WWI. The soldiers' faces drawn not-quite-right in an almost impressionistic sense conveyed the dis-ease that the men in the trenches felt at all times. The slightly off proportions gave a sense of the soldiers bodies being mangled while still alive, reminiscent of walking corpses.


If Hitler painted more true-to-life, he wouldn't have captured the essence of the horrors of the Great War. These depictions, though Hitler always maintained he was proud of his service, became a part of the post-war Weimar Zeitgeist as much as wheelbarrows full of marks and French soldiers smoking in Berlin Jazz clubs. If he made it in to art school he'd be just another newspaper cartoonist or hotel-lobby decorator.
 
Hitler wasn't accepted into art school, which eventually led him into the German Army after living destitute in Vienna, and so on.....
But, if you look at some of his art, he wasn't too bad. What killed his career was his inability to draw people. If he worked to improve that, maybe he would have had some success.

If you talk to the brazilian neo impresonists that was the whole charm of his work. The man compensated for his inability to draw people by making them stylized and darkening the mood. The slightly blurred faces, the dark atompshere the feeling alienation made him stand out from the crowd. Fixing that would just make him yet another artist amongst many.

And he did have some success but he chose to stay in europe a place that didn't appreciate him or his work rather then move to the new world where he was considered to be a genus. Adolfs was offered a position as a professor at a brazilian university and he refused it because of his loyality to germany. In the end his suffering was a self inflicted one, and his success really only came after he died.
 
In the end his suffering was a self inflicted one, and his success really only came after he died.

Self inflicted? Stop white washing the crimes of the Soviet Union. I read on a couple forums that his gunshot wounds were inflicted by another human being... How do you get two bullets in your head? Everyone knows he was purged like millions of other german citizens during the civil war in the 40s. Just another free thinker that had to ERASED to HELLP THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE GERMAN SOVIET gODLESS COMMUNIST STATE.

The soviet union is on the ropes now and will pay for its occupation of germany and when it declines your ytpe will no longer be allowed to spew your fallacies
 
Self inflicted? Stop white washing the crimes of the Soviet Union. I read on a couple forums that his gunshot wounds were inflicted by another human being... How do you get two bullets in your head? Everyone knows he was purged like millions of other german citizens during the civil war in the 40s. Just another free thinker that had to ERASED to HELLP THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE GERMAN SOVIET gODLESS COMMUNIST STATE.

The soviet union is on the ropes now and will pay for its occupation of germany and when it declines your ytpe will no longer be allowed to spew your fallacies

The soviets acted like monsters no ones saying they didn't act like monsters, but they only occupied germany for six months before coalition forces kicked them out, the poles suffered a three year long nightmare, and Adolf survived the occupation what he didn't survive was his bouts with depression. The man killed himself, it was a tragic loss expecially since the year before he killed himself was widely considered to be his best and most prolific time as an artist. Paintings like 'watch on the rhine' 'the survivor' 'resistance' and of course 'the long night' are still considered to be the heralds of the neo impresionist movement.

Lets not have yet another conspiracy theory.
 
He wouldn't be a great favourite of mine - I'm not a fan of his style of art - but he did have talent. And he captured the utter horror of the War against Communism and the occupation of the German Republic perfectly.

Not that the non-German members of the Grand Anti-Communist Coalition always behaved well either. Even before the use of the atomic bomb on Leningrad, both the British Empire and the Japanese made liberal use of chemical weapons (or plague bombs, in Japan's case), and the Japanese are still occupying huge tracts of Eastern Siberia - which both Britain and America tacitly acquiesced to because it made sure the Soviets wouldn't rise again (and the pacification kept Japan's hands full and out of China...) And those tracts are majority-Japanese now...

At least the Second German Republic managed to make something good come out of the war. The growth of the Eurasian Common Market in Central and Eastern Europe has been a force for good.

Regarding the OP, if Hitler had been more successful... Don't know, really. As has been said, he preferred to stay in Germany so the odds were weighed against him.
 
Personally, I believe a more successful Hitler would have been one that graduate from art school. Interesting question is would he have been any successful if he stayed in his birth country of Austria.

I was thinking if he would have been successful in politics. But then again, he probably would have been out of place in any of the existing political parties in Germany.
 
I was thinking if he would have been successful in politics. But then again, he probably would have been out of place in any of the existing political parties in Germany.

By all accounts, he didn't like Slavs much - he'd probably have been quite dismayed at the Geman-Ukrainian alliance that underpins the Eurasian Common Market.
 

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I was thinking if he would have been successful in politics. But then again, he probably would have been out of place in any of the existing political parties in Germany.
He did give several very well received lecture series, he apparently had a way with a crowd that readily transferred to his writings.
 
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