Engelbert Hilbich
Engelbert Hilbich (born February 18, 1923 in Königshütte , † April 14, 2011 in Landshut ) was a German painter and graphic artist .
life and work
Engelbert Hilbich attended the Polish and later the German high school in Königshütte. As early as 1937, the 14-year-old received private painting and drawing lessons from the painter and graphic artist Fritz August Bimler . In 1939 the first orders for altarpieces followed in the church of Bismarckhütte ( Chorzów Batory ) and in various churches in Königshütte. His music studies with Fritz Lubrich at the State Music School in Kattowitz were interrupted when he was called up for military service. It was not until 1954 that Hilbich passed the church music examination as organist and choir director with Heinrich Wismeyer at the organist school of the Archdiocese of Munich-Freising.
When he was released from captivity in 1945, he first moved to Pfeffenhausen / Niederbayern, where he worked as a freelance painter. In 1948 he married the music student Irmgard Zunhammer, and the marriage had three children. In the following years, in addition to his intensive artistic work in his Landshut studio, he took on various teaching activities as a private teacher and as an art teacher, in 1952 at the Gymnasium Rohr, 1972–1989 at the Seligenthal Academy for Social Education in Landshut . He also worked as a choir regent in the Landshut parish of St. Margeret and from 1977 to 1987 as an organist in St. Martin in Landshut. 1959–1965 Hilbich studied painting and graphics with Franz Nagel at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . Until 1992 he was a member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists, the Federal Association of Visual Artists (BBK), the Landshut Art Circle and the Wasserburg am Inn artists' community, in whose annual exhibitions he regularly participated.
Hilbich's extensive work mainly includes portraits, landscapes and still lifes. In countless variations of his barren landscapes and his still lifes, arranged from parts of plants, shells, animal skulls, vessels and other found objects, he examines the inherent structure and mood, the order hidden behind the surface and its regularities, light, shadow and reflection. The portraits include numerous commissioned works by well-known personalities. With a portrait of his wife he won the first prize in the portrait competition of the Federal Association of Visual Artists in Regensburg in 1950.
Public commissions and portrait commissions (selection)
- 1949 Bishop Joseph Schröffer , Eichstätt
- 1954 Prof. Dr. Joseph Haas , President of the Munich Music Academy
- 1954 Gabriele Münter (unfinished due to Münter's illness and death)
- 1964 Ludwig Hopfner , District President of Lower Bavaria a. D.
- 1967 Dr. Franz Meyers , Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
- 1978 Wall relief for the new rescue center of the Red Cross in Landshut
- 1985 Josef Deimer , Lord Mayor of Landshut
- 1985 Dr. Gottfried Schmid , District President of Lower Bavaria
- 1988 Dr. Herbert Zeitler, District President of Lower Bavaria
- 2004 SR. Columna Baumgartner, Abbess of the Seligenthal Monastery, Landshut
Exhibitions / selection
- Solo exhibitions
- 1967 House of Encounters, Munich
- 1968 State secondary school, Landshut
- 1974 Gallery Stöcker, Straubing
- 1975 Sparkasse Landshut
- 1981 Rathaus-Galerie and La Cave, Landshut
- 1986 Gallery for spatial art, Munich
- 1988 City Hall Gallery, Landshut
- 2002 retrospective. Painting and graphics. Landshut town hall cellar
- 2010 Furniture store Thalmeier, Dorfen / Upper Bavaria
- 2011 "Sleeps a song ...", commemorative exhibition, Great Town Hall Gallery, Landshut
- 2012 "E. Hilbich - Pictures from his time in Pfeffenhausen 1945-1972", Raucheneckersaal, Pfeffenhausen
- 2016 "Engelbert Hilbich - 1923–2011", Landshut city residence, Landshut City Museums
- Group exhibitions
- 1947 "Contemporary Art", New Collection, Munich
- 1948 Municipal Gallery, Munich
- 1959 "Art of the 20th Century in Landshut Property", Residenz, Landshut
- 1965 "Exhibition of Young Artists at the Academy", Haus der Kunst, Munich
- 1974 "Der Osten", Society for Literature and Art, Recklinghausen
- 1979 "Great Art Exhibition", House of Art, Munich
- 1981 "Artists from Upper Silesia", Gürzenich, Cologne
- 1982–1984 "Great Art Exhibition", Haus der Kunst, Munich
- 1983 "The Isar", Rathaushalle, Munich
- 1989 Kunst- und Gewerbehaus, Regensburg
- 1989 "Bavaria's Landscapes Today", Gallery of the Bayerische Landesbank, Munich
- 2010 "40 Years of the Art Association Landshut - 1970–2010", Great Town Hall Gallery, Landshut
Publications
- Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition in the Rathausgalerie Landshut, 1981
- Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition in the Rathausgalerie Landshut, 1988
- Engelbert Hilbich 1923–2011, Writings of the Museums of the City of Landshut 36, Ed. Franz Niehoff, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ Engelbert Hilbich's obituary in the Landshuter Zeitung from April 16, 2011
Web links
- Biography (PDF; 225 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hilbich, Engelbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigshütte |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 2011 |
| Place of death | Landshut |