When the artists Jake and Dinos Chapman bought a
series of paintings by Adolf Hitler for £115,000,
many questioned the morality of paying for works
produced by one of history's most brutal dictators.
Yesterday, the brothers unveiled 13 of the
watercolours, on which they had added psychedelic
rainbows, stars and love hearts, and placed them
back on the market for £685,000.
The Chapmans denied that the paintings, which are
selling as a single work, sought to "redeem"
Hitler, and classed the original watercolours as
"bland" and lacking in talent. "The idea of
redeeming Hitler is bad, the idea of redeeming
his work is a staggering work of genius," said Jake.
He hoped the defacement of Hitler's work, which
includes landscapes, vistas of Roman ruins and
still life, which the dictator painted when he
was young, would have him "spinning". The changes
they had added meant it was no longer Hitler's work, he added.
"If hell exists and Hitler exists in it, he would
be spinning if he saw these. It's not his work
any more. It's our work," he said.
Following concerns that the work could be bought
by Nazi sympathisers, White Cube Gallery in
London, where it is showing, has stated that it
will be extremely careful about who it sells to.
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