Sepp Hilz

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Sepp Hilz (born October 22, 1906 in Bad Aibling ; † September 30, 1967 in Willing ) was a German painter who specialized in rural subjects and was considered a peasant painter .

Life

Hilz was the son of the painter and church restorer Georg Hilz . After completing elementary school, he initially received an apprenticeship for aspiring painters in Rosenheim , where he mainly learned to copy old masters. From 1921 to 1927 he continued his studies at the Munich School of Applied Arts and at Moritz Heymann's private school . In 1928 he married and returned to Bad Aibling to work for his father. Since 1930 he has made his own work in the style of Wilhelm Leibl .

During the National Socialist era , Hilz was very successful due to his rural subjects and was one of Adolf Hitler's favorite painters. After Hitler had bought his picture after work for 10,000 Reichsmarks in 1938 , he granted him a donation of 100,000 Marks in 1939 to purchase a piece of land and build a house with his own studio by Alois Degano . Hilz was represented several times with his own works at the Nazi art exhibitions in the Munich House of Art , including in 1939 with the picture of a peasant girl undressing, called Peasant Venus . On July 1, 1943, Hitler appointed him professor, despite his title being suspended. In the final phase of the Second World War Hitler included him in the God-gifted list of the most important painters, which saved Hilz from being deployed in the war.

After the end of the Second World War , Hilz worked as a restorer of church paintings damaged during the war. In his own works he turned increasingly to religious topics. After the divorce, he entered into a second marriage in 1950. In October of that year he was a founding member of the Bad Aibling Art Association . As a patronized artist under National Socialism, he could no longer gain a foothold and decided in 1956 to give up painting. In 1967 he died.

literature

  • Robert Thoms: Great German Art Exhibition Munich 1937-1944 . Directory of artists in two volumes, Volume I: painter and graphic artist . Neuhaus, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-937294-01-8 , p.
  • Maximilian Westphal: A graphic portfolio as a relic: Sepp Hilz, eight hand-signed original aluminum prints, 1956 . In: Christian Fuhrmeister, Monika Hauser-Mair, Felix Steffan (eds.): Bequeathed. expired. repressed. Art and National Socialism ( exhibition cat. Städtische Galerie Rosenheim ). Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7319-0569-1 , pp. 173-188.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Harm Wulf: Sepp Hilz. The peasant painter artroots.com .
  2. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 247.
  3. ↑ Helmut Heiber (editor): files of the party chancellery of the NSDAP , part 1, volume 1. Oldenbourg, Munich and Vienna 1983, p. 424.
  4. ↑ Three hundredweight weather witch - women and farmers for overseas . In: Der Spiegel . No. 38 , 1949 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Hilz, Sepp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Aibling
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1967
Place of death Willing (Bad Aibling)