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Doubts over authenticity of 'Hitler' paintings sold at Shropshire auction house
Mullocks Auctioneers, based in Church Stretton, held 13 auctions between 2009 and 2018 to sell 77 lots of watercolours, oil paintings and sketches, apparently signed by the Nazi.
However, the auction house's experts have always said they were uncertain over whether Hitler painted the pictures in pre-auction notes.
Now Dutch journalist Bart FM Droog, 52, has added his voice to the debate claiming the paintings could be forgeries – as he says most of the works attributed to Hitler worldwide are not authentic because the style and materials of the works do not match.
The auction house said neither the vendors nor the auctioneers are responsible for the authenticity of works, as this falls to the purchaser, and said it was made clear before the sale the works might not be authentic.
Bart was commenting ahead of the sale of a new 'Butterfly' Hitler watercolour which is due to be auctioned later this month.
He said: “The majority of 'Hitlers' which surfaced after 1945 can be dismissed at first sight as forgeries.
“I don’t want people to be buying this rubbish – almost all alleged Hitler artworks and other Hitler items offered by auction houses are fakes.
“Between 1910 and 1913 Hitler on
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Magnificent Black Forest Carving Depicting Adolf Hitler (Item AH 31-1; ART 18-9) | |||||||||||||||
DESCRIPTION: In 1933, Germany experienced the Machtergreifung, Adolf Hitler's victory and ascension to power when Reichs president Paul von Hindenburg appointed him to the office of Chancellor of the German Reich. The church bells in all of Germany rang in jubilant cheer and the faithful National Socialist supporters were ecstatic with hope and pride at this highly auspicious occasion. Almost before Hitler physically entered the Reichstag, artists both professional and amateur were busy turning out charming figurines, paintings, drawings, and all sorts of art depicting their leader. The piece we offer here is a woodcarving in the traditional Black Forest style. For centuries throughout the dense Schwartzwald ther
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