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Fritz Hirschberger: Other Paintings

The images shown below represent uncatalogued paintings (oil) by Fritz Hirschberger that deal with issues of a political and social nature that impelled him to paint about it. The Holocaust, with all of its unanswered questions, was the starting point for the artist, who died in 2003. Themes which he pursued were: The Holocaust, alienation, the seven deadly sins, abuse of women, commercialism, misuse of the Holocaust in American Jewish life and various threats to the world and its environment because of human institutions. In these paintings, Hirschberger continued to use high color that characterized his earlier work, found on other websites on the CHGS pages. Hirschberger was well read in mythology, German and European history and knew several languages, aside from his native German. With both training in art and engineering, and surviving World War II in the Polish Anders Army as a solider (decorated by the Polish government in the 1990s), Hirschberger has a unique artistic view that combined artistic concepts, elements of classicism in his own artistic forms, and engineering skills, which allowed him to often join figures with strange contraptions.

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Artist’s studio, San Francisco	Artist’s studio, San Francisco	The Artist and his studio, San Francisco	Fritz Hirschberger around 1998. "The Neutral Swiss-How Sweet It Is! $"
Fritz Hirschberger around 1998	Self-Portrait	Portrait of the Artist and His Father	Hugo fighting Salonophobia
Hugo is afraid of Moonbeams	New York, New York	Fiddle Fish	Cat's Whiskerss
Papa and me	The Biological Clock	Walter von der Vogelscheisse *(1)	What was First? (from "The Chicken or the Egg riddle")
Greed	Second Sight	The Wake	Kwiatka (A type of horse bred from Arabian stock)
The Good Old Boys *(2)	The Golem from Dimona (Dimona is the site of Israel’s nuclear reactor)	Hugo with Atomic Fish	Hugo with a Bomblet. Hugo is Mad-he believes he is Hugo!
Hugo making atomic attack birds	Excedrin headache en rouge	Spinsters	Red on Red with White Fish
Mixed Media No. 10	Child with Three Mothers	Incobus	Victims of isms
Matter over Mind	Brothers	Social Engineers	My eye
The Seekers, S.F. 1960	Berlin 1924	The Last of Che	The Most Unkindest Cut of All (After classical images of Salome and John the Baptist)
Immaculate conception	DADA Plays the Geige (n/d)	Evolution	The Recycled Revolutionary
My Uncle and Aunt, 1937 (who died in the Holocaust)	Used Spare Parts	The Killing of Lambs	Pecunia non olet *(3)
The Junkers (Reference to East Prussian aristocrats)	Temptation	Over Number 4 at Auscwitz: The First Attempt to Depict the Unhuman Shoah.”	War's Harvest
No Escape	Musical Enigma	Academia	Hugo Doesn't like Flies
Matter over Mind	Red Desert	Where Minds Meet	Just Nothing
Angst (Self-portrait of the artist on the ground?)	Cain and Abel	The Morning after the Night of Glass ("Kristallnacht")	To Each His Own, 'Goethe' The Slogan on the entrance gate at Buchenwald Concentration Camp
The War's Reward	Matter over Mind	The Inheritance	Saint Holocaust USA
Hitler's Legacy

1. Walter von der Vogelscheisse (probably a pun about Walther von der Vogelweide, b 1170, Medieval Troubador known for his anti-Papal poems
2. The Good Old Boys (perhaps a reference to the book: The Good Old Days: the Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders by Ernst Klee, Willi Dressen, and Volker Reiss
3. Pecunia non olet. Pecunia non olet (Latin for "money does not smell") is a Latin saying. The Roman Emperor Vespasian reintroduced a urine tax on public toilets within Rome's now famous Cloaca Maxima (great sewer) system. When his son Titus criticized him, he supposedly pointed out that a coin did not smell ('Pecunia non olet'), even though it came from urine (e lotio est). (Suetonius, Vesp. 23)