A SERIES of watercolours by Adolf Hitler were sold at a British auction house on Thursday for over 100,000 euros.
The 13 paintings, most of them landscapes and found in a garage earlier this year by the seller, went for 95,589 pounds (S$210,773) at auctioneers Mullock's.
The paintings date back to between 1908 and about 1914, when the former German leader was a young man trying to earn a living as an artist in Vienna.
'Unfortunately for the world, he was not accepted into the Vienna Academy, which was where he wanted to be,' Mr Westwood-Brookes said.
'Of course, if he had been accepted, then we would have known him today as an artist and not as an evil tyrant.' Mr Westwood-Brookes said the seller bought them from someone who found them in 1945.
Many of the works are signed with the initials 'A.H.'
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