Anton Hiller

Anton Hiller (born January 7, 1893 in Munich , † April 20, 1985 in Munich ) was a Bavarian sculptor and painter.

Life

Anton Hiller was born in Munich in 1893 and grew up in a Catholic farming family in Sigmaringendorf in Hohenzollern . From 1911 to 1913 he attended the municipal sculpture school in Munich after completing an apprenticeship in wood carving. In 1913 he took up his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and studied sculpture as a student of Hermann Hahn (1868–1945). He completed his studies in 1923, interrupted by military service (1915 to 1917).

From 1923 he worked as a freelance sculptor in Munich. He carried out orders from the Bavarian State Gallery and the Municipal Gallery . In 1926 he went to Paris to study . From 1939 he was constantly represented at the Great German Art Exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich as well as at numerous exhibitions at home and abroad.

From 1946 to 1961 he was professor of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he was next to Toni Stadler and Heinrich Kirchner the most important representative of the Munich School of Sculpture in the third quarter of the 20th century. From 1952 to 1960 Hiller was a board member in the German Association of Artists .

In 1985 the sculptor Anton Hiller died.

Awards

In 1954 he received the promotional award for fine arts of the state capital Munich .
In 1961 after his retirement he was made an honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich
In 1962 he was guest of honor at the German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome
In 1965 he received the Bavarian Order of Merit
In 2019 the municipal council of Sigmaringendorf decided to name a street after Anton Hiller

Works

Marble fountain in the main fountain of the old salt works in Bad Reichenhall from 1931

Hiller "mainly created female nudes (such as" Gehende "1943/44, Lenbachhaus , Munich) and animals as well as the" Kindlbrunnen mit Hund "fountain on Habsburgerplatz in Munich" (built in 1929).

literature

Peter Anselm Riedl: Anton Hiller. Sculptures and drawings . Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1976
Peter Anselm Riedl: Anton Hiller. Sculptures . Catalog of the exhibition in the Mannheim Kunsthalle. Mannheim 1993
Peter Anselm Riedl: Anton Hiller. A sculptor from Upper Swabia . Exhibition in the Sigmaringen district office . Sigmaringen 1993
Hans Vollmer : General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the 20th Century , Volume II, 1955, Page 446.
Anton Hiller (1893–1985). Sculptor and painter . Catalog for an exhibition in the Jahrhunderthalle Frankfurt a. M. Ibid., Farbwerke Hoechst, 1966
Hiller, Anton . In: Supreme Building Authority Munich (Hrsg.): Bildwerk Bauwerk Artwork - 30 years of art and state building in Bavaria . Bruckmann, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7654-2308-4 , p. 90, 94-95, 154 .

Web links

Anton Hiller 1994/1995 in the Villa Wessel in Iserlohn

Individual evidence

↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Board members of the German Association of Artists since 1951 ( Memento from December 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 26, 2015)
^ Mareike Keiper: Ringstrasse becomes Anton-Hiller-Strasse. Schwäbische Zeitung Sigmaringen, December 18, 2019, accessed on December 19, 2019 .
↑ Gehende, Anton Hiller (1893 Munich - 1985 Munich). Retrieved October 18, 2019 .
↑ List of Munich's urban fountains (pdf), on muenchen.de, accessed on October 21, 2019

personal data
SURNAME	Hiller, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH	January 7, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
DATE OF DEATH	April 20, 1985
Place of death	Munich

[1] uenstlerbund.de: Board members of the German Association of Artists since 1951 ( Memento from December 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 26, 2015)

[2] Mareike Keiper: Ringstrasse becomes Anton-Hiller-Strasse. Schwäbische Zeitung Sigmaringen, December 18, 2019, accessed on December 19, 2019 .

[3] Gehende, Anton Hiller (1893 Munich - 1985 Munich). Retrieved October 18, 2019 .

[4] List of Munich's urban fountains (pdf), on muenchen.de, accessed on October 21, 2019