Hitler failed the entry requirement to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 1907 and again in 1908. The sketches he submitted were precise drawings and he was told he might apply to the Academy's architectural school. But, Hitler had dropped out of secondary school and was not eligible. He ended up tinting post cards in Vienna for 5 years to supplement the meager sales from his paintings.
Most Modern Art was labeled by Hitler as degenerate. He was not always hostile to Impressionism unless the artist was Jewish or had become Degenerate. Shortly before the Degenerate Art Exhibition opened in Munich in 1937, he said in a speech, "works of art which cannot be understood in themselves but need some pretentious instruction book to justify their existence will never again find their way to the German people." Heroic realism was what he wanted.
Carl Grossberg (1894–1940), had attended architecture school. He painted and sketched in a Precisionist style. It was the perfect style to showcase the Third Reich's rapid industrial growth. I guess Hitler didn't wonder why in Grossberg's paintings the streets are devoid of people. The lonely scenes are similar to those of Edward Hopper.
Grossberg was an Officer in the Wehrmacht and returned to active duty on the Polish Front in 1939. In 1940, he died in an automobile accident in France.
Carl Grossberg, Bridge over Schwarzbach Street
in Wuppertal, 1927.
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| Carl Grossberg, Berlin, AVUS, 1928. |
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| Carl Grossberg, Coffee Roaster, 1933. Graphite on paper. |
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| Carl Grossberg, Der gelbe Boiler, 1933 |
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| Carl Grossberg, The Belts, 1933 |
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| Carl Grossberg, The Paper Machine, 1934 |
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| Carl Grossberg Vorbereitungssaal Weberei, 1935. |
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Carl Grossberg, Interior, 1935.
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| Carl Grossberg, Schleuse Friedrichsfeld, 1938. |
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