HITLER ADOLF: (1889-1945) Fuhrer of the Third Reich 1934-45. An original 10.5 x 14 watercolour painting, purported to be by Adolf Hitler, unsigned, the image depicting a clock tower, with various trees in the foreground. Annotated in contemporary pencil to the verso, in German, Stift bei Wels 18 Februar 1921 Adolf Hitler, indicating that the subject of the painting is the Wels Abbey in Austria. Contained in a later cream matt and framed and glazed in a modern frame to an overall size of 16.5 x 20. Some light age wear, about VG

Provenance: According to information supplied by the vendor, all of which is documented in various newspaper articles (copies of which are included with the lot) the present painting was gifted by Hitler to Herman Goering. It was later to come into the possession of former Luftwaffe pilot Karol Bachraty (father of the vendor) following his escape from a Russian Concentration Camp in 1945. Bachraty made his way to Italy, accompanied by other Third Reich officers. Bachraty was to spend the rest of his life in Chile where he encountered other former officers and together they formed a small association. Bachraty was elected with the chief responsibility of taking care of the paintings, some of which the colleagues intended to sell in order to fund a care home for former officers.
£6000-8000
€7800 - 10400