Gregor Hiltner

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Gregor Hiltner (* 18 January 1950 in Nuremberg as Franz-Peter Hiltner ) is a German visual artist .

Live and act

Great works of art Walther Rathenau
and Theodor Herzl as a tile mosaic in the Nuremberg subway station Rathenauplatz (1990)

Franz Gregor Hiltner studied from 1970 to 1978 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Karl Fred Dahmen and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg as a master student with Ernst Weil .

He acquired his reputation and artist name Gregor Hiltner while studying as a bar in the Nuremberg artist bar Gregor Samsa .

Study trips took him, for example, from 1975 to 1976 to a fourteen- month stay in the Middle East ( Syria , Jordan , Israel ), in 1979 for six months in Polynesia and Micronesia , in 1980/81 with a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to London, 1983 after Brazil , but also to Tuscany , Canada and the USA .

In addition to large-format works of abstraction and over a hundred worldwide exhibitions, there were also large -scale works of art such as the design of the Rathenauplatz subway station in 1990 and Germany's longest picture (220 × 2 meters) in the EuromedClinic , Fürth , with 400 m² of accessible space in 1996 .

Other works

Gregor Hiltner created several film and video productions, several CD productions with extensive illustrations, a multimedia calendar and a children's book.

Awards

  • 1982: Lisa and David Lauber Prize, Nuremberg
  • 1998: Bruno Schnell - Nürnberger Nachrichten publisher award

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gregor Samsa - franken-wiki.de
  2. ↑ Solo exhibitions ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gregorhiltner.com
  3. ^ Zeit-Online, G. Hiltner
  4. ↑ Palimpsest ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gregorhiltner.com
personal data
SURNAME Hiltner, Gregor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hiltner, Franz-Peter (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg