What if Hitler was killed in WW1 or became an artist?

We know that Mr Adolf fought in the Great War. In which he came close to death when facing a British solider with a rifle. But that solider did not kill him. Later when Hitler became the person that we all know he while deciding bombing locations decided not to bomb where the person that saved him lived.

Another comment if Dolfy became a artist and not rejected by Vienna studio of fine arts it may have been a better path for the world.
 
Had Hitler not gained power, either through death or simply following a different life the most major change outside the very obvious is that it's likely that the German right-wing parties would be far closer to the old school reactionary parties that existed in the country rather than the Fascist model. It would be controlled by and largely in the interests of old nobility and the higher levels of the military. So German would resemble Franco's Spain if they came to power.
 
His paintings were shit, they were right to reject his application.
I think they were good enough that Hitler could have made a living, of a sort, as an artist. Perhaps he would scrape by selling his architectural paintings/prints to tourists in Vienna or Munich, maybe with some supplemental income.

Hitler didn’t try very hard to get into art school; it was Vienna or bust. If he really had a powerful ambition to become an artist, he could have applied to architectural school (as suggested) or to less exclusive art schools, or even taken an apprenticeship as a sign-painter.

When he was in Munich, Hitler lived just blocks away from modern artists Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, among others. They represented what art had been becoming since the invention of photography; Hitler had no interest and stuck to his ten-pfennig-a-dozen postcard style.

Both Kandinsky and Klee fled Germany in 1933. Both were represented in the 1937 exhibit “Degenerate Art”.

Hitler will likely serve in WW1 anyway, and I won’t speak to the possibility of him dying. But imagine this: his experiences inspire him to paint the horrors of war, in the style of Otto Dix. Dix was, OTL, hated by Hitler more than just about everyone else. (None of the artists mentioned were Jewish.) Here’s Dix’s “Stormtroopers Advancing Under Gas”, an etching/aquatint from 1924:

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Had Hitler not gained power, either through death or simply following a different life the most major change outside the very obvious is that it's likely that the German right-wing parties would be far closer to the old school reactionary parties that existed in the country rather than the Fascist model. It would be controlled by and largely in the interests of old nobility and the higher levels of the military. So German would resemble Franco's Spain if they came to power.

To add onto this some kind of military dictatorship led by the likes of Von Schleicher is exceedingly likely IMO.
 
To add onto this some kind of military dictatorship led by the likes of Von Schleicher is exceedingly likely IMO.
Or you get Nazi Lite with the DNVP, once they and the Stalhelm group merge, with a few tweak in leadership at the top, but not really a dictatorship, but would be authoritarian
 
His paintings were shit, they were right to reject his application.
Actually, his art was decent if not stellar; the academy suggested he study architecture because his big problem was illustrating people. Problem is his laziness had burned that bridge through a bad education.

To the OP's question, he'd still be pissed about what happened even after being an artist. History might not be all that different...
 
We know that Mr Adolf fought in the Great War. In which he came close to death when facing a British solider with a rifle. But that solider did not kill him. Later when Hitler became the person that we all know he while deciding bombing locations decided not to bomb where the person that saved him lived.

Another comment if Dolfy became a artist and not rejected by Vienna studio of fine arts it may have been a better path for the world.
What if he went to Paris in the 1920es ? For example if he hypothethically gets imprisoned by the French learns the language a bit aftetwards goes to Paris during the Bohemme. There he meets Picasso, Dali,etc.
 
Making History by Stephen Fry has this sort of framework. The guy travelling to the alternate past is ecstatic there is no Hitler, but then slowly realises the other Nazis still rose to prominence, coalescing around someone was either killed or discredited in WW1, thus disproving the "Great Man" theory in its way...
 
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"The High Man In The Castle"

- someone at Merck accidentally discovers the psychoactive properties of MDMA (first synthesized in 1914) and publishes their findings in Angewandte Chemie
- by 1918, someone in Berlin develops a third school of psychiatry besides Freud and Adler, which involves giving the new wonder-drug to shell-shocked war veterans.
- by 1923, under the influence of magic ecstasy pills, Adolph Hitler is a rising star in the Bauhaus movement, alongside Klee and Kandinsky.

[ Not sure if fascists or Communists prevail in TTL ?]
 
Right wing reactionaries probably gain power, in Germany, in the late 20's or early 30's. The German monarchy would probably regain power, with the backing of the army.
 
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