Edith Hillinger

Edith Hillinger (November 12, 1933 – April 26, 2026)[1] was a California artist who primarily created watercolor paintings and mixed-media collages.

Edith Hillinger

Edith Hillinger (November 12, 1933 – April 26, 2026)[1] was a California artist who primarily created watercolor paintings and mixed-media collages. She recently lived and worked in Berkeley, California, but moved to Vallejo, California prior to her death.

She was the daughter of architect Franz Hillinger.[2]

Personal life

Hillinger was born November 12, 1933 in Berlin, Germany. In 1937, her family fled to Turkey, where they lived in Istanbul and Ankara. In 1948, the family moved to New York, New York,[3] where Hillinger eventually began her formal art education at the Cooper Union School of Art. She obtained a four-year certificate in painting from Cooper Union and went on to New York University, graduating with a B.A. in 1976. [4]

Art

Though Hillinger draws inspiration from botanical and natural scenes, her career has increasingly leaned toward abstraction. Her work also takes inspiration from her formative experiences in different countries, conveying "whole cultural histories through expression that is utterly personal."[5] Her collage work has been noted for recalling Picasso's graphic work, as well as the paintings of Paul Klee.[6] This work can be seen as a synthesis of the influences of her youth, the adorned surfaces of Turkey and the minimal forms of the Bauhaus.[7]

Aerial View

Feminism

Hillinger has been documented as a founding member of the second-wave women's movement, included in a directory of influential members who made notable changes to customs or laws in the US.[3] She continued this work advocating for the inclusion of female artists in the art historical canon. Hillinger founded the Bay Area Women Artists' Legacy Project to highlight women's contributions to Bay Area art.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Edith G Hillinger". Trident Society. Retrieved 2026-06-15.
  2. ^ "The lives of two artists in Exile : : Franz Hillinger–architect Edith Hillinger–artist". digipres.cjh.org. Retrieved 2021-07-23.
  3. ^ a b Love, Barbara J.; Cott, Nancy F. (2015-01-01). Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252097478.
  4. ^ "The lives of two artists in Exile : : Franz Hillinger–architect Edith Hillinger–artist". digipres.cjh.org. Retrieved 2021-07-23.
  5. ^ "Experiences become Edith Hillinger's art". Los Angeles Times. 2013-06-28. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2017-03-20.
  6. ^ "Offramp Gallery - Edith Hillinger Review Art Ltd". www.offrampgallery.com. Archived from the original on 2017-03-21. Retrieved 2017-03-20.
  7. ^ "Offramp Gallery - Edith Hillinger Review Pasadena Sun". www.offrampgallery.com. Archived from the original on 2017-03-21. Retrieved 2017-03-20.
  8. ^ "introduction". Bay Area Women Artists' Legacy Project. Retrieved 2018-03-07.

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