"The following took the test with insufficient results, or were not admitted...Adolph Hitler, Braunau a. Inn, April 20, 1889, German, Catholic. Father civil servant. 4 classes in High School. Few Heads. Test drawing unsatisfactory."
Vienna Academy of Fine Arts rejection, 1907. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (17)
...the human figures...are so bad as to remind one of a comic strip. I find a note of my own made once after going through a portfolio of Hitler's original sketches: "Few faces. Crude. One almost ghoulish face." To Heiden, "they stand like tiny stuffed sacks outside the high, solemn palaces."
Shirer's own observations and those of Konrad Heiden. Rise and Fall (19).