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Hitler watercolor sold for $162,000

BERLIN

A watercolor of Munich’s old city hall believed to have been painted by Adolf Hitler a century ago was sold for $162,000 at an auction in Germany on Saturday.

Kathrin Weidler, director of the Weider auction house in Nuremberg, said the work attracted bidders from four continents and went to a buyer from the Middle East. She declined to elaborate. The auction house says the painting is one of about 2,000 by Hitler and is thought to be from about 1914, when he was struggling to make a living as an artist, almost two decades before rising to power as the Nazi dictator.

Associated Press