Adolf Hitler's art is up for sale and the starting price is 4,500 euros

Painting is being sold by two sisters whose grandfather had purchased it in 1916

Update: 2014-11-21 14:13 GMT
The starting price of the painting to go on auction on Saturday is 4,500 euros. (Photo: AP)

Berlin: A 100-year-old water-color of Munich's city hall is expected to fetch at least 50,000 euros ($60,000) at auction this weekend, not so much for its artistic value as for the signature in the bottom left corner: A. Hitler.

Nuremberg's Weidler auction house says the painting was one some 2,000 painted by Adolf Hitler and is thought to be from about 1914, when he was struggling to make a living as an artist, almost two decades before rising to power as the Nazi dictator.

It's being sold by a pair of elderly sisters, whose grandfather purchased the painting in 1916.

Auction house director Kathrin Weidler says it's drawn interest from around the world, with most viewing it as a curiosity or as an investment.

The starting price Saturday is 4,500 euros.

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