that opera thread & GR context

[pynchonoid]

[...] Although J. Sydney Jones raises the question as
to how Hitler, a nominal Catholic, gradually became a
Wagnerian pagan mystic, the matter is not explored
deeply. He adds little to Waite, Lukacs, and Bullock
on this point. Hitler spent his inheritance on opera
tickets in the years 1907-1908 in Vienna. By 1909 he
was poor and homeless to the point of pawning his
overcoat (p. 130). 

[...] Paradoxically Jones relates how the penniless
and unemployed Hitler lived off Jewish charities in
1909-1910 (pp. 133, 135, 149, 305, n. 54). Later, in
1910-1912, Jewish art dealers bought most of his
paintings (pp. 147-148, 177-178, 201, 210).  

[...] Most amateur biographies dismiss Hitler's art as
second-rate. His pictures of buildings were competent,
but the human face and body were apparently beyond
Adolf Hitler's talent. Jones blames Hitler's own
laziness for his failure as an artist. Like many
creative artists he was somewhat erratic. He would
produce wildly for a few weeks and then turn to
reading pamphlets or going to the opera, while
allowing his art work to slide. This despite that the
fact that the art framing shop run by the Jewish
dealer S. Morgenstern was willing to buy in 1910
everything Hitler could produce (p. 210). [...]

...from:
. Sydney Jones. Hitler in Vienna, 1907-1913: Clues to
the Future. New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002. xi +
350 pp. Pictures, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95
(cloth), ISBN 0-8154-1191-X.

Reviewed by Robert Whealey, Department of History,
Ohio University.
Published by H-German (March, 2004)

<http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=82461080508945>





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