Hans Georg Hillmann

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Hans Georg Hillmann (born October 25, 1925 in Nieder Mois , Province of Silesia , † May 4, 2014 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German graphic artist , illustrator and graphic designer , known for his poster art . He is considered one of the founders of the modern German film poster .

life and work

Hans Hillmann attended the School of Crafts and Art from 1948 to 1949 and the Werkakademie under Hans Leistikow from 1949 to 1952 , both in Kassel . After 1952 he first worked as a freelance graphic artist, first in Kassel and later in Frankfurt am Main. In 1959 he was appointed professor at the State University of Fine Arts in Kassel . He was a member of the Kassel School of Poster Art, Book and Magazine Graphics . Hillmann received the award " The best German poster " several times . In 1962 he was awarded the Toulouse Lautrec Prize at the international poster exhibition in Paris . In 1964, his works were shown in the graphics department at documenta III in Kassel . Further awards: 1966 2nd prize and silver medal at the 1st International Poster Biennial in Warsaw, 1966 silver medal for the Kiel Week poster, 1975 honorary award from the Comité de Direction de l'Exposition International d'Affiche Artistique de Cinema Paris. 1982 silver medal for illustration from the Art Directors Club Germany, 1992 gold medal for illustration from the Art Directors Club New York, 1990 appointment as an honorary member of the Art Directors Club Germany.

Hans Hillmann is one of the most important German graphic designers and illustrators . He shaped graphic designers of subsequent generations through his work and as a graphic professor at the University of Fine Arts / University of Kassel. In the post-war years, cinema-goers were primarily advertised with film stars and lurid scenes. Hillmann, on the other hand, chose a drastically reduced style. He worked with photo montages, alienations, different fonts, few colors or only black and white. In this way he creates poster motifs that symbolize the core of the films. By 1974 he had designed more than 150 film posters for distribution. Abisag Tüllmann's photographs were also incorporated into the drafts .

Hillmann has received numerous national and international awards for its posters. He worked as an illustrator for “ FAZ Magazin” and for the cult magazine “ twen ”. After the bankruptcy of the film distributor Hillmann worked for, he returned to illustration. He created little picture stories that are characterized by absurd and fantastic humor. In seven years of work until 1982 he adapted Dashiell Hammett's short story Flypaper in the form of a graphic novel , creating a painted film noir . With his gangster stories from the 1980s, Hans Hillmann is one of the pioneers of graphic novels. It was set to music in 2016 by the Israeli composer Itay Dvori .

He lived and died in Frankfurt am Main .

Exhibitions

Literature and Sources

  • documenta III. International exhibition. Catalog: Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture; Volume 2: Hand Drawings; Volume 3: Industrial Design, Graphics; Kassel / Cologne 1964.
  • H. Hillmann: I dreamed I was a dog that dreams. Kohlkunstverlag Rambow and Lienemeyer, Frankfurt a. M. 1970.
  • H. Hillmann: ABC stories from Adam to chance. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1975, ISBN 3-458-01799-5 .
  • H. Hillmann: I got a picture in the meeting. Publishing company Greno, Obertshausen 1976.
  • H. Hillmann: Flypaper. based on D. Hammett's crime story. Two thousand and one, Frankfurt a. M. 1982.
  • U. Schmidt: Elderflower - thirteen German post-war sagas. Illustrations by H. Hillmann and F. Zimmermann. Eichborn, Frankfurt a. M. 1984, ISBN 3-8218-1713-5 .
  • The shameless, the lucky child and all the others. Illustrations by H. Hillmann. Keysersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-87405-187-0 .
  • Visual Master Hans Hillmann. Ed .: Lin Jiayang. Shanghai Literature & Art Publishing House, 2005, ISBN 7-5321-2851-2 . (German / Chinese)
  • FilmArtGraphic. German Film Institute / German Film Museum, Frankfurt a. M. 2007, ISBN 978-3-88799-044-2 .
  • Jens Müller (Ed.): A5 / 01: Hans Hillmann - Das visuelle Werk / The Visual Work. Lars Müller Publishers, Baden / CH 2009, ISBN 978-3-03778-179-1 . (German English)
  • Literature by and about Hans Georg Hillmann in the catalog of the German National Library

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrike May: Subject: Abisag Tüllmann. Biographical Notes . In: Martha Caspers (ed.): Abisag Tüllmann 1935–1996. Photo reports and theater photography . Exhibition in the Historical Museum Frankfurt. Hatje-Cantz, Ostfildern 2011, p. 244.
  2. ↑ A series of 30 character pictures from the FAZ magazine are summarized in one book: The Shameless, the Fortune Child and All the Others .
  3. ↑ On Hillmann's collaboration in "twen": M. Koetzle (ed.): Twen - revision of a legend , catalog for the exhibition in the Munich City Museum 1995, pp. 31, 32, 312.
personal data
SURNAME Hillmann, Hans Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hillmann, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Lower Mois , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 2014
Place of death Frankfurt am Main