How would history be different if Hitler successfully into his art academy? Will he become a world class artist? Will holocaust be prevented?
How would history be different if Hitler successfully into his art academy? Will he become a world class artist? Will holocaust be prevented?
Unless he tries to do both "Adolph Hitler, part time artist, part time dictator!".
This is discussed about every other month on this board. Try the search function, or google "Hitler artist art school architect site:www.alternatehistory.com," for a somewhat complete list.
The general consensus is that Hitler, while technically competent at making a picture, did not have innate artistic talent. His interest in subject matter leaned toward the inanimate--buildings, mostly. He himself noted that, had he done better in mathematics in his youth, he would probably have been an architect. Note his fixation on his planned post-war rebuilding of Berlin--he really liked buildings.
So it's implausible for him ever to be accepted to art school, not without a change to his personality as an artist early on. At best, he could be hired as a draftsman or someone who draws for advertisements, or someone who makes the artists' conceptions for architectural or engineering projects.
Assuming he no longer pursues a political career, yeah then the holocaust and the rise of the Nazi's has been avoided.
But without Hitler's innate gift for oratory it won't be nearly as popular, and will probably end up as one of several right-wing parties competing for limited votes.Assuming the 1918-19 German Revolution still breaks out (and more then likely it will, owing to the stress caused on society by the war), then the Nazi Party will rise amidst the ashes of the Second German Empire just as the German Communist Party arose during the revolutionary upheaval rocking Germany.
Hilter gambled a lot on his foreign policies, and it payed off at first. With someone else at the helm, Nazi Germany might well take a different (ie, slower) road to power, which means they can't afford to perform such actions, or at least not nearly as extensively.And with the coming of the Third Reich and, with Nazis at the helm, persecution of Jews and other 'undesirables' will still occur and quite possibly genocide or mass repression.
That almost sounds like it could either a Mel Brooks movie or a REALLY demented Monty Python sketch.
Adolph Hitler, architect.
!933: Hitler's first major art exibition in Berlin launches the "National Realism" movement. It's main concept is that art should have a distinctly national and realistic nature.
1937: The national realists take over the Vienna art scene
1938: After dominating the Munich Art biennal, the national realists take over the Prague art scene
1939: After Hitler's large exibition in Warsaw is a triumph, French Cubist painters and British landscape tradicionalists declare artistic war on national realism.
1940: In a surprise display at the Paris art show hyper realist painters Guderian and Manstein capture the French Art Scene with their near photograpic renditions of mechanical devices.
Later in 1940: National realism art fails to make an impression on the British public. Landscape painter Winston Churchill writes in the art section of the times the famous lines: Never in the history of art have such beautiful landscapes been captured with so few brushes"
1941: The National realists and the Soviet Realists engage in a series of simultaneous exibiths all across eastern europe. The resulting atriction leads to a general fatigue over realism in the european public.
1944/45: Edward Hopper's first exibition in Paris and Norman Rockwell triumph in Tokio mark a new era of US dominance over the realistic art scene. National Realism is discredited in most universities and art schools.
That almost sounds like it could either a Mel Brooks movie or a REALLY demented Monty Python sketch.