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He wasn't a quality artist, mediocre at best. His architectural paintings have lots of detail, but things like parallel lines in walls are off, and so is perspective.
His renderings of humans was terrible. You may see some landscapes or buildings, but never a portrait.
There was a time when learning to draw was a part of a well-rounded education, so having basic artistic skills wasn't unusual. Hitler's may have been slightly better than average, but he clearly didn't have the natural skill to be a professional.
Think of your school orchestra. The first chair players are probably pretty good. In a Band & Orchestra Competition, they could probably play a pretty impressive solo, but they are still a long ways from getting a chair in any major orchestra in the world. Thats the level that Hitler's art was at.