Freud-owned Hitler art to be auctioned

A painting created by Adolf Hitler and thought to have been owned by Jewish psychologist Sigmund Freud will be auctioned in Britain.

The watercolor, signed “A. Hitler, 1910,” is believed to have hung in Freud’s Vienna office. The words “Sigmund Freud, Vienna” are written on the back of the painting, according to the Telegraph.

The starting price for the painting, which will be auctioned by Mullock’s Specialist Auctioneers, is about $15,600, the London newspaper reported.

The painting was brought to Italy after World War II and taken by an American soldier who was told the painting hung in Freud’s office. — jta