A painting by Adolf Hitler is
among the works set to go on show Saturday in the Museum of Salò
near Brescia Saturday, art critic and curator Vittorio Sgarbi
said Friday.
"It's a piece of crap, it's a painting by a desperate man, it
could have been done by Kafka, it says a lot about his psyche,
you don't see greatness but you see misery here," said Sgarbi, a
polemicist and provocateur, who organised the 'Museum of
Madness' show.
Sgarbi said it "is not the work of a dictator but that of a
wretch, it reveals a profoundly melancholy soul".
Museum Director Giordano Bruno Guerri, in presenting the
show, recalled that Hitler told British Ambassador Neville
Henderson: "I am an artist and not a politicians, once the
Polish question is resolved I want to end my life as an artist".
"And it would have been better, even though he wan't much of
an artist," Bruno Guerri said.
Salò was the capital of Benito Mussolini's late-WWII northern
Italian Fascist Republic.
The Republic of Salo, the Italian Social Republic (RSI),
spawned postwar neo-fascist groups in Italy.
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