Hubert Hilscher


Hubert Hilscher was a Polish graphic artist.

Biography

Hubert Hilscher was born in a German family in Poland. In 1944 when he was 20 years old, he fought in the Warsaw Uprising as a soldier of the Home Army, under the pseudonym ‘Zaremba’.
In 1949, his interest in printmaking led him to attend the State Academic School of Plastic Arts, where he studied under the tutelage of. The school merged with the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1950. He graduated in 1955.
After graduating, Hilscher worked at WAG, a publishing house that provided patronage for poster designers. He served as its art director between 1961 and 1970.
In 1962, he served as art director for the bimonthly magazine Projekt until the magazine ceased production in 1983.
Hubert Hilscher died in 1999 at the age of 75. He is buried in Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw.

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