Fill in the Blanks HITLER/1Online version Hitler biography. by Alfonso Poza 1 Arts watercolor clashed living Semitism school Academy Austria rejected homeless Adolf Hitler was born in Branau am Inn , , a village close to German - Austrian border , on April 20 , 1889 , and was the fourth of six children born to Alois Hitler and Klara Polzl . When Hitler was 3 years old , the family moved from Austria to Germany . As a child , Hitler frequently with his father . His father did not approve of his interest in . Hitler's father died suddenly in 1903 . Hitler left at 16 with no qualifications and struggled to make a as a painter in Vienna . In Vienna he worked as a casual laborer and a painter . Hitler applied to the of Fine Arts twice and was both times . Out of money , he moved into a shelter , where he remained for several years . Hitler later pointed to these years as the time when he first cultivated his anti - .