>>7694107
Well after failing to get into art school Hitler stayed in Vienna. He was living in and out of various homeless shelters, burning through the remainder of his inheritance, life getting worse and worse and worse each passing month until eventually he's sleeping on benches and eating out of soup kitchens while the few friends he had were making it as artists and musicians.
He was forced to do drawings of famous buildings from little postcards all day, so he could sell them to jewish shop owners. They paid him basically no money for this work, enough to keep his bunk at one homeless shelter or another, and used his art to fill empty picture frames as place holders.
I can see why that would truly crush your artistic spirit. When the only paid work you can get is by making the generic window dressings that people buying picture frames imagine their better art going on top of.
He had a jewish art dealer that would buy this picture frame filler work and take a cut of the profit for selling it to the jewish shop owners. Hitler continued to live out of charity soup kitchens, next to the jewish business district in run down sleeping quarters for transients and bums.
He went from loving the Vienna art scene and idolizing it, to really despising it. Despite being super nationalistic in his youth, when told to do his national service he said fuck it and ran away to Berlin. They eventually caught him but upon being conscripted they wouldn't even take him because he was so starved he was unfit for service.
Then decades later he came back to Vienna and killed them all. Destroyed the jewish district, killed the jews living there and personally ordered the murder of his former jewish art dealer. As a result of the Nazi policies, "degenerate and modern art" in Austria was heavily censored. The academies were all heavily scrutinized by the state. There was a whole government agency on policing "degenerate culture".
You could say he was history's greatest crab lol