On his second visit to Vienna Adolf made up his mind to become a professional painter. His aim was to bring to light the fact of the miserable condition and the plight of Germans, their tragic poverty, helplessness, corruption in the society and the tyranny of Jews over Germans through his paintings. He wanted to portray the widening gap between the poor and the rich due to Jewish exploitation of the German population and its abetment by the rulers and the administration that were controlled by the Jews. He thought that his intense feelings in the subject could find expression only through the brush and the canvas. For him the words appeared too stereotyped.
By the end of June he returned to his mother and sister Paula who were in Ourpher. He found his mother’s condition very serious. She had breast cancer. When Adolf learned the truth he retreated to a corner outside the hospital and cried bitterly. How he loved his mother! Paula saw him weeping and she too cried alongside.
Adolf stopped crying for the sake of his sister and he tried to comfort her just like an ideal elder brother. He promised her that he would stay with them as long as possible. The ailing mother only worried for the future of Adolf and used to urge him to continue his education somehow.
In September of the same year (1907) he went back to Vienna. He rented a room and applied for admission in Vienna Fine Arts Academy. He was allowed to take the examination but he failed to get the admission. Adolf didn’t reveal it to his mother. He began to paint in his Vienna room undeterred. After all many great artists were self educated. A painter’s painting is itself the testimony of his genius. Adolf was now a 18 year old youngman. He received the news of the deteriorating health of his mother. He went to be with her.
She was in terminal stage. Adolf’s heart cried. She was the person whom he loved most. Clara Hitler eventually left for her heavenly abode in 21 December leaving her children to fend for themselves. Adolf wept for several days in hiding feeling ashamed of himself for not being able to do something for his mother, he so loved. He could not be any helpful even in her illness.
