Gustav Hilbert

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Gustav Hilbert (1956)

Gustav Alfred Giesbert Hilbert (born July 26, 1900 in Dortmund ; † August 18, 1981 in Hengersberg - Schwarzach ) was a German painter and graphic artist as well as metal and enamel artist .

Life

Look at Gustav Hilbert's studio in 1928 in the Academy of the Fine Arts Berlin .
Hilbert with his oil painting Self-Portrait with Nude in 1928 in his studio at the Academy of Fine Arts

Gustav Hilbert was the son of the Dortmund church painter and master painter of the same name. After years of apprenticeship in his father's workshop and a few semesters at the Werkkunstschule Dortmund, he moved to Berlin for further artistic training , where he was a pupil and master class student of Ferdinand Spiegel at the University of Fine Arts from 1920 to 1925 . After the University of Fine Arts was merged with the teaching institute of the Kunstgewerbemuseum to form the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts , he switched to Arthur Kampf as a master student , with whom he stayed until 1929. At the same time, the head of the enamel class, Frieda Bastanier, introduced him to the enamel technique, which was previously unknown to him. Hilbert then dealt intensively with it. From 1929 he was also a member of the Berlin Artists Association .

Gustav Hilbert made numerous trips from 1922 to Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, North Africa , the Middle East and Russia . He financed these trips with the proceeds from the sale of landscapes painted there .

In 1928 Bruno Paul appointed him first as artistic director, then in 1932 as sole director of the enamel workshop at the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts. He carried out this activity until 1941. In 1930 he also took over the teaching post for life drawing . In 1935 he was finally appointed associate professor of the fine arts and in 1940 succeeded Ferdinand Spiegel in the teaching post for painting, drawing and composition. During these years he lived in Berlin-Charlottenburg .

During the Second World War , Gustav Hilbert did military service in the Wehrmacht from 1941 to 1945 , where he was deployed in state picture offices, among other things .

After the end of the war, Hilbert returned to Berlin, where he took over the management of the advertising graphics studio of the Rex-Film-Gesellschaft. In this function he was responsible for the creation of all external advertising for the film theaters on Kurfürstendamm as well as all film posters and film brochures for the four victorious powers.

From 1950 to 1959 Hilbert worked as a department head for artistic design at the technical school for textiles and fashion in East Berlin . For political reasons, however, he finally fled to the West and went to Vienna , where he was head of the animation studio of the Schönbrunn Film Society for three years , in which Rex-Film was absorbed in 1950. He then returned to his native Dortmund, where he taught from 1963 to 1967 as a lecturer in artistic training at an advertising school.

Gustav Hilbert was married twice. He had a son from his first marriage. As a pensioner, he lived mostly in West Berlin , but most recently moved to Hengersberg-Schwarzach, where he died in 1981 at the age of 81.

Work and meaning

Gustav Hilbert's work is diverse and ranges from oil paintings to commercial graphics to elaborate cell fusion ( cloisonné enamel ).

The years between 1920 and 1940 are the most important of his artistic work. Especially in the 1920s, he took part in numerous art exhibitions with his paintings . In the course of his artistic development, Hilbert did not turn to abstract painting , but saw himself as a representative of the academic type of representation. His art remained objective in all areas. His painting style can be attributed to the New Objectivity . For him, the most important creative means of composition was the line, not the color, as Fritz Mielert worked out. According to Mielert, Hilbert's Westphalian origins are reflected in all of his pictures in the form of a “North German heaviness”, including those showing southern subjects.

As head of the enamel workshop at the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts from 1928 to 1941, he became the leading representative in the field of three-dimensional enamel objects and developed the pits and cell melting technology to a new bloom. His most outstanding work in this technique is an altarpiece created between 1927 and 1931 , which, like other of his enamel works, has been on permanent display at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin since 1972 . Another altar in cell melting technology was created for the Von Bodelschwingh Foundation Bethel .

On behalf of the government, he made trophies for sporting events, the most important of which is the Baltic Sea Cup . He also created table decorations for the then General Field Marshal Hermann Göring .

Hilbert's students include Kurt Wendlandt , Marianne Weingärtner , Franz Hartmann and Elfriede Glaser-Kaempf.

Gustav Hilbert's apartments

  • View of Gustav Hilbert's apartment in Treptower Park 14 in East Berlin (around 1955).

  • Junggesellenstrasse in Dortmund : Hilbert's studio was on the top floor of house number 16 from 1963 to 1967.

  • The residential building Kurfürstendamm 159 (right) in Berlin. Hilbert lived on the first floor with his wife Edith from 1967 until the end of the 1970s.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1923 Great Berlin art exhibition
  • 1924 Great Berlin art exhibition
  • 1925 Great Berlin art exhibition
  • 1926 Great Westphalian Art Exhibition in Dortmund
  • 1926 Great Berlin art exhibition
  • 1927 Great Berlin art exhibition
  • 1927 Exhibition of the Association of Berlin Artists in the Kunstverein München
  • 1928 Large Westphalian art exhibition in Hagen
  • 1928 Modern enamel , State Trade Museum Stuttgart
  • 1929 Great Westphalian Art Exhibition in Münster
  • 1930 Great Westphalian Art Exhibition
  • 1931 Great Berlin art exhibition
  • 1932 Exhibition of the Berlin Artists' Association at the Munich Art Association

Since 1972, works by Gustav Hilbert have been shown in the permanent exhibition Art of the 1920s and 1930s at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin .

Works (selection)

Love (1923)
Self-portrait with first wife (1938)

Paintings and drawings

  • Farm boy , oil on canvas 25 × 30 cm, 1922.
  • Love , oil on canvas 112 × 115 cm, 1923.
  • Still life - flowers - fruit , oil on canvas 71 × 100 cm, 1923.
  • [Cocottes] In the attic , oil on canvas 100 × 160 cm, 1923.
  • Self-portrait with parents and siblings , oil on canvas, 1924.
  • Unemployed , oil on canvas approx. 60 × 80 cm, 1924.
  • Havellandschaft , oil on canvas 65 × 77 cm, 1925.
  • Westphalian landscape , oil on canvas 90 × 100 cm, 1925.
  • Still life with black cloth , oil on canvas 90 × 100 cm, 1925.
  • Diana de Strozzi (also known as a child's portrait with deer ), oil on canvas 90 × 1000 cm, 1926.
  • Port of Dubrovnik (also Port of Ragusa ), oil on canvas 66 × 77 cm, 1926.
  • Pigsty , oil on canvas 90 × 100 cm, 1927.
  • Peasant girl , oil on canvas 135 × 152 cm, 1927.
  • On the Spree , oil on canvas 66 × 77 cm, 1927.
  • Goldfish , oil on canvas 90 × 100 cm, 1928.
  • Tetuán, Morocco , oil on canvas 90 × 100 cm, 1928.
  • Paris, on the Seine , oil on canvas 90 × 100 cm, 1928.
  • Portrait Li Stratz , oil on canvas 19 × 21 cm, 1929.
  • Blast furnace system , tempera on paper, undated
  • Rainy day , tempera on paper, undated
  • Converter , tempera on paper, undated
  • Fiery Elias , tempera on paper, undated
  • Spring , ink on paper, undated
  • Paris Judgment , oil on canvas 83 × 140 cm, 1932.
  • Ischia, at the harbor , oil on canvas 90 × 100 cm, 1933.
  • Women's bath , oil on canvas 83 × 140 cm, 1934.
  • Portrait I. Bohus , oil on canvas 30 × 45 cm, 1934.
  • Ships in the harbor , oil on canvas 66 × 77 cm, 1937.
  • Self-portrait with 1st wife , oil on canvas 120 × 184 cm, 1938.
  • In the dunes , oil on canvas 135 × 152 cm, 1938.
  • Ice skaters , oil on canvas 90 × 100 cm, 1952.
  • Portrait of the second wife , oil on canvas 17 × 22 cm, 1957.

Most of Gustav Hilbert's pictures are in private hands today, but a number are also in public collections. For example, the Blast Furnace , Rainy Day and Spring works belong to the LWL Museum for Art and Culture .

Email and other handicrafts

  • Flat oval bowl , copper, gilded, with cell enamel and other enamel techniques, H 6.5 × W 21.5 × L 35.5 cm, 1927.
  • Lidded box , body made of ivory , silver mounting, on the lid cell enamel, H 7.5 × W 8 × L 7.5 cm, 1929.
  • Altarpiece , gilded copper, with cell and pseudo-pit enamel, H 107 × W 139 × D 61.5 cm, 1927–1931.
  • Jewelry box , copper box , silver lid with cell enamel, H 3.2 × W 16 × D 10.9 cm, 1930.
  • Boy and girl , cast bronze, partially gilded, with matt ground pit enamel, H 35 cm, 1932.

In 1970 Hilbert donated the altarpiece to the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, where it is exhibited together with other of his works.

literature

  • U. He .: Hilbert, Gustav . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 73, de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023178-6 , pp. 152-153.
  • Gustav Hilbert: About my work . In: The Art Industry. Illustrated monthly for art and art care , 10th year, 1927, pp. 193–197 (with illustrations).
  • Fritz Mielert : The painter Gustav Hilbert . In: Illustrirte Zeitung . Weber, Leipzig, Volume 170, March 22, 1928, p. 431.
  • Dieter von der Schulenburg: Email is not enamel, the new future of an old art - conversation with Professor Hilbert . In: Berliner Tageblatt of May 19, 1938 (supplement).
  • L. Smolny, R. Peter jr .: Frau Mode is a strict master . In: Zeit im Bild , issue 26/58 of September 2, 1958, p. 18.

Web links

Commons : Gustav Hilbert  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ so according to U. He .: Hilbert, Gustav . In: De Gruyter - General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples . Volume 73: Heunert - Hoellwarth . de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, p. 152; the order of the name is in passports but also with Alfred Giesbert Gustav and Alfred Gustav Giesbert stated
  2. ^ A b c d Max Aurich: Success of the painter Gustav Hilbert. A Dortmund artist appointed professor . In: Westfälische Landeszeitung - Rote Erde , Gross-Dortmund edition of May 6, 1935
  3. ↑ a b c d U. He .: Hilbert, Gustav . In: De Gruyter - General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples . Volume 73: Heunert - Hoellwarth . de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, p. 152
  4. ^ Franz-Adrian Dreier: Kunstgewerbemuseum - new acquisitions and donations . Reprint from: Jahrbuch Preussischer Kulturbesitz . VIII / 1970. Grote, Berlin, p. 247
  5. ^ A b Association of Berlin Artists - Directory of Members . Berlin 1939, p. 22
  6. ^ U. He .: Hilbert, Gustav . In: De Gruyter - General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples . Volume 73: Heunert - Hoellwarth . de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, pp. 152–153
  7. ↑ a b c d e U. He .: Hilbert, Gustav . In: De Gruyter - General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples . Volume 73: Heunert - Hoellwarth . de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, p. 153
  8. ^ Fritz Mielert: The painter Gustav Hilbert . In: Illustrirte Zeitung . Weber, Leipzig, Volume 170, March 22, 1928, p. 431
  9. ^ Franz-Adrian Dreier: Kunstgewerbemuseum - new acquisitions and donations . Reprint from: Jahrbuch Preussischer Kulturbesitz . VIII / 1970. Grote, Berlin, p. 248
  10. ↑ Barbara Mundt (arr.): New acquisitions from the 1920s . Catalog for the exhibition at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin from February 28 to May 1, 1972. Berlin 1972, p. 22ff.
  11. ↑ Dieter von der Schulenburg: Email is not enamel, new future of an old art - conversation with Professor Hilbert . In: Berliner Tageblatt of May 19, 1938 (supplement)
  12. ↑ cf. also Max Osborn : The Great Art Exhibition . In: Vossische Zeitung of May 31, 1924
  13. ↑ cf. the associated exhibition catalog
  14. ↑ cf. the associated exhibition catalog, p. 19
  15. ↑ cf. the associated exhibition catalog, p. 21
  16. ↑ destroyed
  17. ↑ badly damaged in World War II
  18. ↑ is considered lost
personal data
SURNAME Hilbert, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hilbert, Gustav Alfred Giesbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist as well as metal and enamel artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH 18th August 1981
Place of death Hengersberg - Schwarzach