Paintings, drawings from Adolf Hitler's time as a failed artist up for auction in Nuremberg

Artwork by Adolf Hitler.
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When the paintings and drawings go up on the auction block next week in Germany, collectors of macabre pieces of history and mediocre art will have the chance to buy one of 14 works created by a young Adolf Hitler from 1904 to 1922.

Some of the artwork is expected to bring in tens of thousands of euros, with a watercolor of Bavaria's famous Neuschwanstein Castle — likely made as an 80th birthday gift for the German industrialist Otto von Steinbeis — possibly fetching €45,000, or more than $50,000. Most are signed by "A. Hitler," who wanted to become an artist but was rejected twice by an art academy in Vienna after failing the entrance exam, causing him to go down a very different path once he entered politics.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.