Did the people responsible for rejecting Hitler from art school ever make any public comments after he rose to power?

by SurroundedByAHoles
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No.

The person who was mainly responsible for rejecting Hitler, Christian Griepenkerl, died in 1912 of natural causes.

Griepenkerl was born in Oldenburg in 1839 and went to to study with Carl Rahl in Vienna who was famous for monumental art and had designed various frescoes in Habsbrug holdings in Vienna (a lot of allegorical figures). This deeply influenced Griepenkerl, who specialized in painting historical art, especially the use of allegory inspired by antiquity in portraits. He, among others, was mainly responsible for the frescoes in the Vienna Opera House.

Due to his work in this field Griepenkerl became a professor at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in 1874. There he thought a whole generation of famous artists, among them Carl Moll, Richard Gerstl, and Egon Schiele. While some of his students would later decry some of his antiquated opinions about art, the general judgement of Griepenkerl was that the man knew what he was doing.

When Hitler applied it was him who in 1907 rejected him with the note "not sufficient, few heads" and again in 1908 with not even letting him draw. As I wrote above, Griepenkerl died in 1912 of natural causes thus never having the chance to comment ever upon Hitler again.