Adolf Hitler painting fetches $195,000 at auction Dictator's work: A watercolour of the old city hall in Munich by Adolf Hitler. Frankfurt: A watercolour painted by a young Adolf Hitler a century ago has gone under the hammer for €130,000 ($A194,990) at an auction in the southern German city of Nuremberg. The buyer wished to remain anonymous, auction house Weidler said. The 1914 painting of the city hall in Munich was put up for sale by two elderly sisters, whose grandfather bought the artwork in 1916, when Hitler was in his 20s. The work measures 28 centimetres by 22 centimetres. As a budding artist, Hitler applied to the Vienna Academy of Art but was rejected. However, he continued to paint, copying images from postcards that he sold to tourists. Experts consider his work to be of mediocre quality and the larger auction houses generally refuse to sell the late Nazi dictator's works. Nuremberg famously hosted the trials of Nazi leaders after World War II. Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin bunker in the dying days of the war.