Monday, December 29, 2008

Making plans for the Fuhrer Museum



Hitler's taste in art embraced the epic stature of the male model of antiquity.

Hitler's rejection - in his eyes, humiliation - by the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna would now be "repaid" in many ways.

Although his museum was never built, its plans and architectural models were a constant focus of the Fuhrer, even during the final desperate days in the Berlin bunker.

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