DHAKA: Watercolors and drawings by Adolf Hitler have fetched 400,000 euros (Tk 35,035,409) at a German auction.

A painting of Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria fetched the highest price at Saturday’s sale, selling to a Chinese buyer for 100,000 euros, the BBC publishes this report on Monday.

A still-life of carnations, signed A Hitler, fetched 72,000 euros at the Nuremberg event.

Last year the same auction house sold a watercolor painted by Hitler in 1914 for 129,000 euros.

The auction was organized by Weidler Auctioneers of Nuremberg, which said bidders included private investors from Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, France and Germany. It did not identify the buyers or the sellers.

Although Hitler is considered a mediocre artist, his artworks command high prices when they go under the hammer.

Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports that Hitler paintings can be sold under German law provided they do not display any Nazi symbols.

FAZ said these were believed to be by Hitler - and most were signed ‘A Hitler’. But it cautioned that ‘countless forgeries (of Hitler paintings) exist’.

The future dictator sought admission to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in the 1900s but was rejected twice.

He went on to become Germany’s military and political leader from 1933 to 1945, launching World War Two and causing the deaths of millions.

BDST: 1219 HRS, JUN 23, 2015
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