2.
- in his flat in Munich were hung several paintings of Grützner.
Fest, Joachim C.:
Hitler, A Biography, Propylaen, Germany, 1973 , p.726
- early he began buying all the significant works of his perferred artists through specially
commissioned agents for the gallery in Linz. These included artists such as, Böcklin,
Defregger, Feuerbach, Grützner, Leibl, Markart, Menzel, Schwind, Spitzweg, Trübner, Rudolf
von Alt, Waldmüller. Price, Billy F.: Adolf Hitler as Painter and Drawer, Gallant, Switzerland, 1983, p.10
- Hitler abhorred the so-called "entartet" or degenerate art such as Expressionism,
Impressionism, Cubism, Dadaism etc. which he referred to as, "terribly misguided errors",
from "charlatans", "smear fingers", "lunatics" and "cultural Neanderthals".
Price, Billy F.: Adolf Hitler as Painter and Drawer, Gallant, Switzerland , 1983, p.8
- did not , however, destroy these works, but, according to official NSDAP documents, over
165,000 paintings, drawings and sculptures were removed from over a hundred German
museums. They were brought to a central collection point and sifted through by a
commission. Some of them were offered for sale in Switzerland, and exchange
arrangements were made with other countries, and some were gathered at the so-called
"Exhibition of Degenerate Art" in 1937 in Munich. At that time,
- Hitler said that he would be very happy if he could trade a
Picasso or Pechstein for a Dürer or Rembrandt.
Price, Billy F.: Adolf Hitler as Painter and Drawer, Gallant, Switzerland , 1983, p.10
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