McGill Rare & Exotic Collectibles

This is an original, Adolf Hitler, signed watercolor of a European church interior looking into a baptismal room. A baptismal font is shown with a window in the background. The work is signed lower right, A.Hitler, and measures 9' x 11 ½'. The "Watercolor" was completed between 1908-14, and originates from the collection of Baron Karl von Schwabe #55. This Hitler "Watercolor" is very rare due to the fact that only few interiors exist compared to numerous landscape and building exteriors. The Hitler "Watercolor" poses the question - What if Hitler had been accepted to study architecture in Vienna and pursue his love of Roman and Greek architecture, design grandiose buildings and over 40 million lives saved? Adolf Hitler was one of the key historical military figures of our century. He was an able artist, a talented technician and architect.

Hitler's works embrace all periods of his life: his early school boy doodles, postcards, sketches, watercolors, works of art from Vienna and Munich, the drawings and paintings from the first World War on through as a budding politician, and finally as Chancellor of Germany, then leader of the Third Reich. Adolf Hitler stated, "my architectural sketches, which I drew up were my most prized possessions, the property of my mind." These works have survived, many lost and some are turning up from private collectors who have decided to put them on the market. This CHURCH INTERIOR "Watercolor", is one of those such pieces that has surfaced in the United States. The "A.Hitler" signature on the "Watercolor" is exact in comparison to others shown on several of his works.

Hitler's Church Interior, c.1908 pencil/paper sketch of a window with baptismal font (ADOLF HITLER, Billy F. Price, Cat. #73, p. 110) is the work study drawing for Hitler's CHURCH INTERIOR "Watercolor". At the time, Hitler frequented the church for help and understood that there is spiritual survival in Salvation. Hitler's "WATERCOLOR" directly entombs his spiritual affinity to one of the traditional sacraments of the church - Baptism, which is a necessary part of Salvation. Later Hitler thought he was like a savior for the Arian race, the German peoples, to purify the evil forces of the world, who were against the National Socialism of Germany and the Third Reich.

After considerable research and careful examination, it is in my opinion the value of the CHURCH INTERIOR WATERCOLOR, signed "A.Hitler," is … $25,000.00.

D'Arcangelo Fine Arts

Louis D'Archangelo, Member of the Appraisers Association of America, Inc.

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