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The 63 x 48 cm painting, signed A. Hitler,
1916, depicts Charlotte Lobjoie, a Frenchwoman whom Hitler met
while serving in France during World War One, according to
Werner Maser, a leading Hitler scholar who died in 2007.
"Portrait of a Girl" - a damaged work painted on hessian - was
purchased by Flemish industrialists around 1967, auction house
Weidler in Nuremberg said in a statement.
It said it had documents showing it had been exhibited at art
galleries in Japan.
The painting in what appears to be a rural setting depicts a
young woman with a red scarf loosely on her head that casts a
heavy shadow over her face, and holding a pitchfork.
She is wearing a light-colored shirt, open from the neck down,
exposing part of her breasts.
Maser, who was referred to by Weidler in its statement, wrote
several books about Hitler, providing insight into the mind of
the Nazi leader through a close look at his drawings, letters
and notes.
Hitler painted for a living in the 1920s before rising to power
and leading Germany into World War Two. With Soviet troops
closing in on his headquarters in Berlin, he committed suicide
in April 1945, along with his mistress Eva Braun whom he married
shortly before.
In 2015 Weidler sold a watercolor of Neuschwanstein Castle in
Bavaria that was also signed A. Hitler and believed to be the
work of the former Nazi leader at an auction that fetched
100,000 euros.
(Reporting by Charley-Kai John; Writing by Joseph Nasr; Editing
by Richard Balmforth)
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