He dropped out of art school or something, and formed the national socialist party after WWI. He tried to stage a coup with one of the war's generals. It failed and he was arrested. While in prison he wrote Mien Kampf.
I had a friend who was an artist.
He was a REALLY bad drawer but he kept trying to make a living off of it. I finally knocked some sense into him and he stopped painting all together.
I think he went into politics, he was always a good speaker.