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		 Artist’s studio, San Francisco
Artist’s studio, San Francisco		 The Artist and his studio, San Francisco
The Artist and his studio,
San Francisco		 Fritz Hirschberger around 1998
Fritz Hirschberger around 1998. "The Neutral Swiss-How Sweet It Is! $"
Fritz Hirschberger around 1998
Fritz Hirschberger around 1998		 Self-Portrait
Self-Portrait		 Portrait of the Artist and His Father
Portrait of the Artist
and His Father		 Hugo fighting Salonophobia
Hugo fighting Salonophobia
Hugo is afraid of Moonbeams
Hugo is afraid of Moonbeams		 New York, New York
New York, New York		 Fiddle Fish
Fiddle Fish		 Cat's Whiskers
Cat's Whiskerss
Papa and me
Papa and me		 The Biological Clock
The Biological Clock		 Walter von der Vogelscheisse (probably a pun about Walther von der Vogelweide, b 1170, Medieval Troubador known for his anti-Papal poems
Walter von der Vogelscheisse
*(1)		 What was First? (from "The Chicken or the Egg riddle")
What was First? (from
"The Chicken or the Egg riddle")
Greed
Greed		 Second Sight
Second Sight		 The Wake
The Wake		 Kwiatka (A type of horse bred from Arabian stock)
Kwiatka (A type of horse
bred from Arabian stock)
The Good Old Boys
The Good Old Boys
*(2)		 The Golem from Dimona (Dimona is the site of Israel’s nuclear reactor)
The Golem from Dimona (Dimona is the site of Israel’s nuclear reactor)		 Hugo with Atomic Fish
Hugo with Atomic Fish		 Hugo with a Bomblet. Hugo is Mad-he believes he is Hugo!
Hugo with a Bomblet. Hugo is Mad-he believes he is Hugo!
Hugo making atomic attack birds
Hugo making atomic attack birds		 Excedrin headache en rouge
Excedrin headache en rouge		 Spinsters
Spinsters		 Red on Red with White Fish
Red on Red with White Fish
Mixed Media No. 10
Mixed Media No. 10		 Child with Three Mothera
Child with Three Mothers		 Incobus
Incobus		 Victims of isms
Victims of isms
Matter over Mind
Matter over Mind		 Brothers
Brothers		 Social Engineers
Social Engineers		 My eye
My eye
The Seekers, S.F. 1960
The Seekers, S.F. 1960		 Berlin 1924
Berlin 1924		 The Last of Che
The Last of Che		 The Most Unkindest Cut of All (After classical images of Salome and John the Baptist)
The Most Unkindest Cut of All (After classical images of Salome and John the Baptist)
Immaculate conceptionImmaculate conception DADA Plays the Geige (n/d)
DADA Plays the Geige (n/d)		 Evolution
Evolution		 The Recycled Revolutionary
The Recycled Revolutionary
My Uncle and Aunt, 1937 (who died in the Holocaust)
My Uncle and Aunt, 1937 (who died in the Holocaust)		 Used Spare Parts
Used Spare Parts		 The Killing of Lambs
The Killing of Lambs		 Pecunia non olet
Pecunia non olet
*(3)
The Junkers (Reference to East Prussian aristocrats)
The Junkers (Reference to East Prussian aristocrats)		 TemptationTemptation Over Number 4 at Auscwitz: The First Attempt to Depict the Unhuman Shoah.”
Over Number 4 at Auscwitz: The First Attempt to Depict the Unhuman Shoah.”		 War's Harvest
War's Harvest
No Escape
No Escape		 Musical Enigma
Musical Enigma		 Academia
Academia		 Hugo Doesn't like Flies
Hugo Doesn't like Flies
Matter over Mind
Matter over Mind		 Red Desert
Red Desert		 Where Minds Meet
Where Minds Meet		 Just Nothing
Just Nothing
Angst (Self-portrait of the artist on the ground?)
Angst (Self-portrait of the artist on the ground?)		 Cain and Abel
Cain and Abel		 The Morning after the Night of Glass ("Kristallnacht")
The Morning after the Night of Glass ("Kristallnacht")		 To Each His Own, ‘Goethe’ The Slogan on the entrance gate at Buchenwald Concentration Camp
To Each His Own, 'Goethe' The Slogan on the entrance gate at Buchenwald Concentration Camp
The War's Reward
The War's Reward		 Matter over Mind
Matter over Mind		 The Inheritance
The Inheritance		 Saint Holocaust USA
Saint Holocaust USA
Hitler's Legacy
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)