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Hitler Masturbating
Spanish: Hitler masturbándose
ArtistSalvador Dalí
Year1973
Catalogue2007.118
MediumGouache on paper
Dimensions16.5 cm × 21.6 cm (6.5 in × 8.5 in)
LocationSalvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida

Hitler Masturbating is a gouache-on-paper painting by Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí, which is itself an alteration of a work by an unknown artist.[1][2][3] Completed in 1973, it is 16.5 cm × 21.6 cm in size[1] and is housed at the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States.[4][5][6] As of 2022, the painting is not available for public viewing.[1]

In 2012, Hitler Masturbating was displayed in an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, bringing it newfound attention.[7] It is also in the French edition of Dalí's novel Hidden Faces.[7]

Description

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The original artwork was created by an unidentified painter and portrayed a herd of horses traversing a snowy landscape.[1] According to the Salvador Dalí Museum, its author may have been August Friedrich Schenck, as it follows common themes in his artwork, and Dalí had also altered one of his works with his painting The Sheep.[1] Dalí added and subtracted details with gouache; the finished product depicts German Führer Adolf Hitler seated on a throne upheld by horses on each corner while he fondles his penis.[1][8] He does so alone, faced away from the viewer as though they are catching him in the act.[1][7][9]

Along with his similarly transformed paintings The Sheep (1942) and The Ship (c. 1934–35), Dalí gifted Hitler Masturbating to Reynolds and Eleanor Morse and explained its subject matter simply as "Hitler masturbating because he is lose le var! [sic]".[1] The Morses later sent the painting to the Salvador Dalí Museum.[1]

Analysis

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Dalí had a lifelong, and often controversial, admiration of authoritarian figures and ideologies.[10][11][12] Eva Schooler, writing for Haaretz, described Hitler Masturbating as an attempt at humanizing Hitler, which "contradict[s] Dalí's assertion that his art was always apolitical".[13] Schooler also notes a 1934 letter Dalí wrote to André Breton in which he stated that he had sexual fantasies involving the dictator and that Hitler "warranted the admiration of the Surrealists".[13]

Josep Playà i Maset [ca] opined in La Vanguardia that "the painting is more likely to be a dirty joke on [Dalí's] part. As Hitler masturbates, he contemplates a barren wasteland, a void that resembles the destruction of Europe by his own hand".[7]

In Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?, art historian James Elkins writes that Hitler Masturbating is "the painter's equivalent of the art historians' claims about hidden penises, apes, brains, vulvas, and other members flung from the writers' imaginations onto the pictures".[14]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Hitler Masturbating". Salvador Dalí Museum. Archived from the original on 13 August 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
  2. ^ Brennan, Ailis (11 May 2016). "11 seriously strange things you didn't know about Salvador Dali". GQ (British edition). Archived from the original on 27 August 2025. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
  3. ^ Murcho, Ana (15 July 2020). "Tales of ordinary madness". Vogue (Portuguese edition). Archived from the original on 17 June 2025. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
  4. ^ Sewell, Brian (18 August 1991). "Overviewing the overviews". The Sunday Telegraph. p. 53. Retrieved 17 December 2025 – via newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Gold, Tanya (23 April 2009). "Nazi cows, Nazi cats, actors playing depressed Nazis. It's all just Hitler porn and it disgusts me". The Guardian. p. A7. Retrieved 17 December 2025 – via newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Brand, Russell (29 November 2008). "Hammering Hitler with Boleyn Barry". The Guardian. p. A30. Retrieved 17 December 2025 – via newspapers.com.
  7. ^ a b c d Playà Maset Barcelona, Josep (10 May 2020). "¿Qué pintor tiene una obra en la que aparece Hitler en pleno onanismo?" [What painter has a work in which Hitler appears in full onanism?]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 24 May 2020. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
  8. ^ MacLean, Ailidh (27 September 2016). "Your ultimate guide to Salvador Dalí". Dazed. Archived from the original on 11 May 2023. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
  9. ^ Frost, Laura (2002). Sex Drives: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. p. 167. ISBN 0-8014-8764-1.
  10. ^ Morel, Sandrine (9 September 2022). "In Spain, the 'delirious and Hitlerian' religion imagined by Dali is hard to accept". Le Monde. Archived from the original on 6 October 2023. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
  11. ^ Dinsdale, Emily; Waite, Thom (24 January 2020). "Lessons we can take from Salvador Dalí's surreal ways of living and working". Dazed. Archived from the original on 24 January 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
  12. ^ Lourenço, Beatriz (11 May 2020). "10 curiosidades e polêmicas sobre o pintor surrealista Salvador Dalí" [10 curiosities and controversies about the surrealist painter Salvador Dalí]. Grupo Globo (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 15 May 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
  13. ^ a b Schooler, Eva (6 July 2023). "Who's Hiding Salvador Dalí's Sexual Fascination With Hitler?". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 6 July 2023. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
  14. ^ Elkins, James (1999). Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?. New York City: Routledge. ISBN 0-203-01165-1.