Hindustan Times (Jalandhar)

ADOLF HITLER

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Artworks allegedly created by the Nazi dictator fail to sell at a Nuremberg auction Five watercolou­r paintings attributed to the Fuhrer from his early days as a struggling artist failed to sell at the auction in Nuremberg, Germany, over fears they could be fakes The paintings, which had starting prices of between €19,000 and €45,000, received no bids, according to a Sunday report by The Nuremberge­r Nachrichte­n newspaper Three days before Saturday’s auction, prosecutor­s seized 63 other paintings attributed to Hitler from the auction house to investigat­e allegation­s they were fakes. Hitler is thought to have painted 2,000 pictures as a struggling artist in Vienna before World War 1.

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