Born one out of six children on April 20, 1889 in Braunau am Inn in Austria to Alois Hitler and Klara, Adolf Hitler exhibited an early interest in art.
He tried for a place in the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, but after trying for it twice, was rejected both times.
During this time, he was influenced by two political movements; Georg von Schonerer, a supporter of German nationalism, and Karl Lueger. Lueger, who was the mayor Vienna at the time, encouraged anti-Semitism that was more empirical and organizational, and cast Jews as the enemies of lower and middle class Germans.