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Hilker, who went deaf as a child due to illness, attended the municipal commercial training school (later the “Folkwang Malerschule”) from 1914 to 1918. During this time, he met Christian Rohlfs, with whom he became a lifelong friend. From 1919 to 1920, Hilker studied at the Bauhaus in Weimar in the class of Lyonel Feininger and attended a basic course taught by Johannes Itten. His artistic career began as a postcard painter and caricaturist. In 1921, he was a co-founder of the artist community “Der Fels” and the “Hagenring”. In 1927, he was accepted into the German Artists' Association. Hilker gained fame primarily through his “Heimatseiten”, wood and linocuts with old views from the Hagen districts. A large number of his pictures are owned by the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum in Hagen.


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