02-03-2017 15:03 via theartnewspaper.com

Was Hitler's architect a Watts fan?

It seems that Hitlers favourite architect Albert Speer found the art of Victorian artist George Frederick Watts to his taste. The exhibition at the Watts Gallery near Guildford, south of London, about Watts mural paintings (until 5 November) includes this Diana and Apollo executed to decorate the dining room of Virginia, Countess Somerss London house, 7 Carlton House Terrace. This later became the German embassy and photographs taken just before the Second World War show the room remodeled
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