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Hitler's Art On eBay

Original watercolour paintings by Adolf Hitler are selling for thousands of pounds on the Austrian page of the eBay auction website. A painting entitled München (Munich), bearing the signature of the Nazi dictator and described by the seller as a rarity, was put up for auction for £1,400. Another, Bad Gastein, sold for more than £3,000. Hitler had ambitions to become an artist but was turned down by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts before leading the Nazis. Irish Art