The adventures of the young artist Adolf Hitler

We analyzed the first years of Adolf Hitler, when the future Führer wanted to be the greatest artist in the world, but he ended up frustrated and very, very angry.
In the end, as we know, his ambition opted for other paths.

The young Hitler
The teenage Hitler was a lousy student. In 1904, with 16 years, the school failure knocked on his door and left school with only the subject of approved drawing.

Conclusion? His future was in painting. For three years, the nini Adolf wandered around Linz without looking for work. He scribbled only occasionally in his notebook. Years later he would affirm that those years were the best years of his life.

Shortly after Hitler traveled to Vienna to fulfill his dream of becoming a painter. He arrived at the Academy of Fine Arts and presented himself for the admission test, convinced of his talent. However, that talent is very subjective, and the young artist was not admitted, which disappointed him greatly.

The following year, with a more refined technique, he tried again but the results were even worse, and he would even be banned from taking the entrance exam again. Although the rector took pity on him and, given his drawings in which buildings abounded and people were scarce, he advised him to try it in the field of architecture. Although Hitler had not graduated from school, and that was imperative to enter architecture. His future was over.

Bohemian life in Vienna
Poor Addie, broken, decided to stay in Vienna to avoid the humiliation of returning home with his tail between his legs. Although the city was for him a "disgusting Babylon of races," he was aware that it was one of the most culturally active places in Europe, and the young man was not going to give up his artistic ambition because of the opinion of "Jews." Apparently, the future dictator was convinced that it was a Jewish professor who had rejected his works and years later, during the military occupation in Austria, personally ordered the murder of several members of the Academy by the SS.

Practically destitute, their only source of income was to sweep the snow, carry luggage at the train station or construction. He ate in soup kitchens and sometimes slept in the street, but he never stopped painting. Maybe one day he would meet an artist who could help him in his career, and that's why he frequented artists' cafés, where he never just stood out. It is estimated that in those years Adolf made more than 1000 drawings, paintings and watercolors.

Leading that bohemian life in Vienna, little by little his luck was improving and he even maintained a season exclusively by painting pictures and postcards of the city (interestingly, most of his clients were Jewish merchant stores). Nevertheless, his anti-Semitism grew exponentially in the cosmopolitan Vienna, and in fact years later he recognized that it was in this city that his hatred of the Jews began to forge. That hatred was also an excuse to gradually escape military service because "he did not want to serve alongside Slavs and Jews."