Fritz Hilbert

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Fritz Hilbert

Fritz Hilbert (born April 2, 1907 in Gehren , Thuringia , † April 3, 1988 ) was a German painter .

Life

He completed his four-year training from 1923 in the training workshop of the art and show painter Ludwig Specht . Over the years up to the start of the war, he painted for numerous showmen and got to know his future wife Else Mendel. She was the daughter of the foreman Johann Mendel in Nuremberg , who was then also the chairman of the South German Showmen Association. After the wedding in 1930, the couple first went on trips with a children's train in the summer, but in the winter months Fritz Hilbert worked again as a showman painter.

In the course of his work, he traveled to countries such as B. the Benelux countries, Sweden and Italy. From 1940 he mainly painted for an art dealer in Fürth , who signed him up after returning home from captivity in France . However, this contract contained a passage that forbade him to continue working for showmen. Countless pictures must have been created during this time, the whereabouts of which are still unknown today. Regardless of this, he continued to paint for showmen until a radio report from the steep wall driver scene revealed his breach of contract. Through an amicable agreement, he was able to get out of this passage in the contract and then paint both oil paintings for the art trade and showman facades. While the oil paintings were created in his studio in the Ziegelstein district of Nuremberg , larger projects were sometimes also painted by the manufacturers or directly by the showmen.

Fritz Hilbert died one day after his 81st birthday with his family.

literature

  • Geoff Weedon and Richard Ward: Fairground Art. The art forms of traveling fairs, carousels and carnival midways. White Mouse Ed., London 1981, ISBN 0-904568-28-8
  • Florian Dering: Popular amusements. A richly pictorial cultural history of the driving, amusement and skill deals of the showmen from the 18th century to the present. Greno, Nördlingen 1986, ISBN 3-89190-005-8 , also: Dissertation, University of Munich
  • Margit Ramus: Folk festival as a cultural asset. Architecture and decoration in the fairground trade. Bachem, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-7616-2772-3 , also: Dissertation, University of Bonn, 2013 under the title: Architecture and decoration in the showman trade