I feel obliged to add that many years ago, I picked up an instructional book on oil painting at a garage sale written by none other than Winston Churchill. Just to add another level of “weird” to Leaffan’s amazement. 
I think between the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts getting a mediocre alumnus cranking out lousy paintings, and a murderous anti-semite, I’d rather have the former.
Hitler was a competent artist. He probably could have made a living as a commercial artist with some lucky breaks. But the academy was correct in their assessment - he didn’t have a lot of creative talent.
Which raises a terrifying (or ridiculous) question: Had he become an evil supreme dictator, which group of “undesirables” would Kincade have selected as the target for eradication?
If Mao Zedong is any guide, traditionally talented artists and other intelectuals.
How and where did he learn the little bit he knew? Was he entirely self-taught or did he ever have any formal training?
According to this, he was self-taught.
I quite like some of those, but it’s not enough to rehabilitate Hitler in my eyes. It’s a great shame that Churchill and Hitler couldn’t have settled the whole thing with a simple paint-off.
The Fuhrer vas a vonderful painter. He could paint an entire flat in one afternoon. Two coats!!
Thank you Mel Brooks.
Churchill was a successful journalist and a very good writer so perhaps they could have made a nice illustrated children’s book.
… about exterminating Jewish puppies and kittens.
Hitler hated the modern art movement. Not to the point of killing them, but he did ridicule their work.
When the Nazis raided the conquered countries of Europe, didnt they alsot loot famous “Degenerate art” works?
A lot of art was looted. Goering especially had a huge amount of looted art that was found by the American military and saved. I’m not sure what the Nazis did with modern art in occupied countries.
Yeah, but if they really thought it was degenerate art, why loot it and not destroy it?
ETA: you edited your post in the meantime, you degenerate 
I got the impression 
Goering took more classic pieces from France. Stuff he personally liked. He literally could pick and choose from The Louvre.
You’re right. I don’t think they burned or defaced modern art. Even the art in the Degenerate Art exhibition in Germany wasn’t damaged. They’ve exhibited some of it in the past twenty years. I recall news articles talking about the Nazi exhibition and contrasting how popular some of the work is now…
Hard to say. If you read up on the dirt about Kinkade, you don’t find any obvious pattern that would indicate any group he might target for persecution. He’s got some unsavory habits (he’s a ruthless businessman, he drinks to excess, he likes strip clubs, and apparently he enjoys urinating in public) but there’s no record of him being racist, anti-semitic, or homophobic.
Oh, but they did have a paint-off. A stormy, testy battle of artistic wills and skills, sometime during the early-to-mid-30’s, which surely deepened their already considerable mutual hatred – and possibly even triggered WWII!
In many of the landscapes and cityscapes, there is an obvious entry (door, arch, road, bridge) that is blocked (by a tree, shadow, trough). There’s often a secondary entry, that is less easily accessible–up stairs, in shadows, etc.
Draw your own conclusions; I just found it interesting.
Beat me to it! I was going to say that IMO Churchill was a superior painter.