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REINHARD HILKER* (Hagen 1899 - 1961 Hagen)
Portrait, 1924
woodcut/paper, 13,2 x 8,1 cm
signed Reinhard Hilker, dated 1924, numbered N 126

ESTIMATE °€ 150 - 300
STARTING PRICE °€ 150

The German painter and graphic artist Reinhard Hilker, who was deaf since childhood, is primarily known for his homeland images. 1914–18, he attended the Gewerbliche Fortbildungsschule (commercial training school) in Hagen. Max Austermann was one of his teachers. During this time, Hilker also met the Hagen painter Christian Rohlfs, with whom he became a lifelong friend. 1919–20 Hilker studied at the Bauhaus state art, architecture and design school in Weimar in the class of Lyonel Feininger and in a basic course taught by Johannes Itten. He began his artistic career as a postcard painter and caricaturist. In 1920 Hilker had his first solo exhibition at the Folkwang Museum in Hagen. From 1921 to 1927, Hilker was in the “Hagenring” and, with Franz Bronstert, Carry Hauser, Georg Philipp Wörlen and Fritz Fuhrken, a member of the artist group “Der Fels”. In the regional area he became known above all for his “hometown sheets”, linocuts and woodcuts with old views from Hagen districts. In 1927 he became a member of the German Artists' Association. In 1937, in the “Degenerate Art” campaign, several of Hilker's early works that contradicted the Nazi art canon were confiscated from public collections and destroyed. In 1950/1951 he had an exhibition at the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum in Hagen on the occasion of his 50th birthday, and the following year his linocuts were shown at the Hagen Local History Museum. In 1953, Hilker married the deaf glass cutting artist Irmgard Bohn for the second time. In 1958 he exhibited in the Märkisches Museum in Witten. In 1959 he was awarded the Gold Medal for Graphics in Wiesbaden, and his last solo exhibition before his death followed in 1960 at the Gustav Lübcke Museum in Hamm. His works could be seen at exhibitions in Wiesbaden, Düsseldorf, Dresden, Berlin and Hagen. The Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum in Hagen has a large number of pictures by Hilker.

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