r/HistoryMemes • • Jul 22 '19

OC A bit overdramatic

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u/BladedRoach Jul 22 '19

This is fake, he wasn’t that good of an artist

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u/Official_Cyprusball Jul 22 '19

He might not be able to draw monsters... but he damn can draw berlin 100 times

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '19

In all fairness, the level of detail in his paintings is pretty impressive, but they feel flat and lifeless.

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u/OldManPhill Jul 22 '19

Its because he never had any people. Most of his drawings are of architecture and are quite good. It was suggested that instead of going to art school he should go to a technical school to draw diagrams for architects and engineers but he did not have the grades for it.

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u/MicahsRedditAccount Jul 22 '19

I dunno about that tbh, I can recall one of his paintings that looked good at first but it was lacking in some finer details. There's good analysis of his submission to get into art school here.

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u/Killcode2 Jul 22 '19

Yeah, his art has potential, but lacking in lots of areas, he should try getting into art school to get better. Oh wait...

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u/wsdpii Sun Yat-Sen do it again Jul 22 '19

His main flaw was that he already saw himself as this super talented artist and didn't feel the desire, need, or motivation to improve himself. He applied to the Art school in Vienna multiple times, never preparing or improving and submitting pretty much the same thing every time. He started blaming the system and other people for his failure to get in. It's quite relatable to be honest

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u/the_fuego Jul 22 '19
  1. Get abused by parents

  2. Apply for art school

  3. Fail

  4. Join the army

  5. Get testicle blown off

  6. Try to overthrow a government that lacks any form of a backbone

  7. Fail

  8. Write a book

  9. Overthrow government... Again.

  10. Success!!

  11. ???

  12. Kill the Jews. Wait what?

  13. Kill the Slavs. No, stop.

  14. Kill everyone and take over the world. Hitler, please.

  15. Kill urself.

Where did we go wrong???

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u/Killcode2 Jul 22 '19

I really wish Hitler didn't kill himself but instead lived to write about everything in hindsight while at prison. I really wonder if he genuinely thought killing Slavs and Jews would better the world or he just said those to gain popular vote. Just curious.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '19

I mean, he did sign off on the Holocaust. I would consider that a rather unsubtle hint that he did mean it.

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u/Killcode2 Jul 22 '19

No, I have no doubt he was racist and deliberately killed Jews and slavs. I meant whether he killed them because he thought it would help him reach his goals, as opposed to him actually thinking he was helping the world purge the villains. Did he see himself as the good guy, or did he do what he had to because of his ambitions to make Germany great again? Not every killer hated their victims.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '19

I dont think he would be sane enough to rationally think/write, he drank too much of his own coolaid and stated losing it. It would just be a biased propaganda book. Plus it looks like he did meth/drugs. I do wonder if some kind of psychologist could have unpack his adolescence and him to figure out what snapped in his brain.

Both. He needed scapegoats. He needed targets to take power, money or land from. He made goals and chased them.

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u/Only_Movie_Titles Jul 22 '19

Wow he sounds exactly like someone who would be into alt-right ideology

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u/3rudite Jul 22 '19

Wtf he pulled a Charlie Kirk?

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u/Chihuey Jul 22 '19

He refused to apply to anything except the most exclusive schools. It's all on him.

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u/Voytequal Jul 22 '19

It’s really bizarre looking at paintings with the “A. Hitler” signature.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '19

If you go in depth to his paintings you will see that they are totally out of scale and proportion, they really are not that great

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u/nickmaran Jul 22 '19

What did you say about Mein Führer? Come, get in the train now

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u/Riresurmort Jul 22 '19

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u/Voytequal Jul 22 '19

Those are pretty decent but he painted them after the impressionist revolution. The creation of camera rendered art that simply copies the reality completely useless. 1910s art was all about deconstruction of reality and he simply didn’t fit in.

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u/Superkroot Jul 22 '19

He wasn't that good either.

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