Adolf Hitler is universally known as an evil, racist, and eccentric mass-murderer, but before he was a dictator or even a soldier, he was an artist. Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau, Austria. As a child he wanted to be an artist, even though his father wanted him to be a civil servant like him. When he was sixteen, two and a half years after his father died, Hitler left high school and spent his time drawing and reading. In 1907 he went to Vienna, the capital of Austria-Hungary, wanting to be an art student, but failed the entrance exam to the Academy of Fine Arts twice! He lived in Vienna and considered himself an artist, occasionally selling drawings and paintings. In 1914, World War One began and Hitler joined the army. After Germany’s surrender, he joined the Nazi party and gave up painting. In 2009 a set of paintings and sketches by Hitler sold for the equivalent of almost $177,000 Canadian. Perhaps if Hitler had been let into the Academy of Fine Arts and continued in his career as an artist, Europe would not have been ravaged by the Second World War and Holocaust.
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