‘Fake or Fortune' returns: Could a £140 painting from an antique fair be a real Churchill?
Pat Stacey
History might have been different if Adolf Hitler had succeeded in his ambition to become an artist.
Unfortunately for humanity, Hitler's paintings, which slavishly copied the styles of 19th-century artists, were mediocre, lifeless and uninspired. Twice rejected by Vienna's Academy of Fine Arts, he might have made a competent architectural draughtsman, but he was certainly no artist.
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'Fake or Fortune' (BBC1) 4/5 Pat Stacey History might have been different if Adolf Hitler had succeeded in his ambition to become an artist. Unfortunately for humanity, Hitler's paintings, which slavishly copied the styles of 19th-century artists, were mediocre, lifeless and uninspired. Twice rejected by Vienna's Academy of Fine Arts, he might have made a competent architectural draughtsman, but he was certainly no artist.
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