Beknackter Name, aber gutes Projekt: ein neuer Podcast, in dem nur Frauen \u00fcber Fuppes sprechen. Die Nullnummer<\/a> ist bereits online, und ich warte gespannt auf die erste richtige Ausgabe.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Faking Hitler: the story behind a sinister market<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Jeder Absatz spannend: Hitler als Maler, echte und gef\u00e4lschte Werke, Kunstmarkt, yadayadayada.<\/p>\n \u201eForging Hitler\u2019s art is a time-honoured tradition. After his second rejection from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in 1908, Hitler eked out a marginal existence painting watercolours, mainly postcard-sized city views of Vienna. His agent Reinhold Hanisch sold them, and the income was good enough to allow Hitler to move out of a homeless shelter and into a new boarding house with Hanisch. The art historian Birgit Schwarz<\/a> describes Hanisch as \u201ca shady figure and notorious liar\u201d in her book Geniewahn: Hitler und die Kunst<\/a> By the time Hitler seized power, the market was flooded with forgeries of his work, Schwarz says. Among the fraudsters was Hanisch, who \u201coversaw a veritable forgery centre in Vienna,\u201d she says. He was arrested in November 1936 and died of a heart attack while in custody in 1937.<\/p>\n Hitler tried to clamp down on the market in forgeries by ordering the Nazi Party\u2019s central archive in Munich to track down and buy both the genuine and forged works. He planned to authenticate the real ones to be entered into a catalogue raisonn\u00e9, while the fakes would be destroyed. \u201cBut often he didn\u2019t know whether they were genuine or not himself,\u201d Schwarz says. \u201cHe had no distinctive artistic style. You can go into any number of antique shops in Vienna today and find paintings by other artists from the same era which look very similar in style.\u201d Hitler banned publication of his art in 1937. Since then, there has been no scholarly attempt to fully catalogue it, Schwarz says: \u201cIt would be impossible to go about this seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n In Nuremberg, Kerstin Weidler showed journalists a copy of Billy Price\u2019s 1983 discredited \u201ccatalogue raisonn\u00e9<\/a>\u201d of Hitler\u2019s works. Titled Adolf Hitler: The Unknown Artist<\/em>, it includes the five the auction house offered. Price was a collector who owned a large number of works attributed to Hitler. His book is dedicated to August Priesack, whose signature is on the \u201ccertificate of authenticity\u201d that Weidler provided for Village by a Mountain Lake. But Priesack cannot be considered reliable\u2014he was the first historian to authenticate the infamous \u201cHitler diaries\u201d, unveiled as forgeries in 1983.\u201c<\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"\"](\"\/\/ir-de.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=httpwwwankegr-21&l=am2&o=3&a=3205788192\")