Hitler paintings sold for $450,000

AFPBerlinWatercolour paintings and drawings by Adolf Hitler from about a century ago were sold at auction in Germany at the weekend for nearly €400,000 ($450,000), organisers said.The most expensive was a painting of King Ludwig II’s Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, now a tourist magnet, which went to a buyer from China for €100,000, Nuremberg-based Weidler auctioneers said, quoted by German news agency DPA.A still-life of carnations changed hands for €73,000 and all of the works on offer, which date from 1904 to 1922, most signed A. Hitler, sold at the auction which ended on Saturday.Bidders included private investors from Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, France and Germany itself, the auction house said.“These collectors are not specialised in works by this particular painter but rather have a general interest in high-value art,” Kathrin Weidler of the auction firm told DPA.Germany permits auction houses to sell the late Nazi leader’s paintings as long as they do not feature any banned symbols.