Why did Hitler not get accepted into art school? Do we know who the admissions director was who made this decision? : r/AskHistorians

The Portal for Public History. Please read the rules before participating, as we remove all comments which break the rules. Answers must be in-depth and comprehensive, or they will be removed. Yes I know his art wasn’t that good, but what were the reasons for not getting in. Was it a competitive art school? And why didn’t he apply to other ones? When he moved to Vienna, Hitler was living off of a waisenpension, money allotted to orphans whose parents had been insured, and which he had qualified for after the death of his father, Alois Hitler; and the personal financial support of his mother, Klara Pölzl. Klara died in 1907 when Adolf was 18, and he ran out of money to support himself two years later. Even if he had been accepted, Hitler wouldn't have been able to stay in any school of higher learning for long. To the meat of your question, the who and the why, it's easy to answer one part and not so much the other. The professor* of note at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien at th

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