News: Film posters by Hans Hillmann, exhibition in Essen (DE)
received from Museum Folkwang

Hans Hillmann Panzerkreuzer / Potemkin, 1967 Germany (BRD) Hans Wittig, Frankfurt a.M. 83,9 x 59,1 cm © Hans Hillmann © 2013 Deutsches Plakat Museum im Museum Folkwang Foto: Jens Nober, Museum Folkwang Hans Hilmman Pickpocket / Robert Bresson German (BRD), 1966 Paul Robert Wilk, Frankfurt Offset print 83,9 x 59,4 cm DPM 23605 © Hans Hillmann © 2013 Deutsches Plakat Museum im Museum Folkwang, Fotos: Jens Nober, Museum Folkwang Hans Hillmann Die verkaufte Braut Germany (BRD), 1972 Offset print 83,9 x 59,4 cm DPM 23618 © Hans Hillmann © 2013 Deutsches Plakat Museum im Museum Folkwang, Fotos: Jens Nober, Museum Folkwang

The Title Is Continued in the Picture – Film posters by Hans Hillmann 11 May – 1 September 2013 Museum Folkwang Museumsplatz 1 45128 Essen, Germany The exhibition The Title Is Continued in the Picture is devoted to Hans Hillmann (born in 1925), one of the most creative and significant film poster designers in post-War Germany. Featuring around 90 examples from three decades (1952 – 1974), the exhibition at the German Poster Museum presents a comprehensive overview of the poster designer’s oeuvre. Hillmann not only succeeded in his works in ignoring the formal language of the Nazi era, but also managed to avoid the carefree ‘loudness’ of Germany’s Economic Miracle years. His style was particularly inspired by the 1920s. In 1952 Hillmann initially adopted a graphic, illustrative style, while from 1960 onwards he began to include photography in his works, sometimes as backgrounds and later as photomontages. But it was repeatedly his exploration of the respective film’s content that made him decide which image he would develop, how the text would be incorporated, and which creative instruments seemed most suitable for realizing the visual concept. In the process he used existing characteristics or cinematic motifs of the film in question and integrated them into the poster design. From the start, the complexity of the resulting poster was impressive. Thanks to his clients Neue Filmkunst Walter Kirchner and Atlas Filmverleih, the more demanding films were also adequately promoted. For over 20 years, innovative, varied design focusing on a single topic created a quality and variability that advanced the development of the poster in Germany in a virtually unique manner. A major driver of this development was undoubtedly Hans Hillmann, who repeatedly succeeded in setting new standards with his works, such as the posters for the films Storm Over Asia , 1961 , Seven Samurai , 1962 , To Be or Not to Be , 1964 , The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner ; 1966, Battleship Potemkin , 1967 ( and A Woman Is a Woman, 1970, to name just a few. An accompanying catalogue is being published by Edition Folkwang / Steidl (EUR 20). Opening Hours Tue – Sun 10 a.m. – 6 p.m., Fri 10 a.m. – 10.30 p.m., Monday closed Visitor Office Museumsplatz 1, 45128 Essen T +49 201 8845 444/000, info@museum-folkwang.essen.de

Hans Hillmann Die Einsamkeit des Langstreckenläufers / Loneliness of a long-distance runner, 1966 Germany (BRD) Paul Robert Wilk, Seulberg/Taunus Offset print 84,0 x 59,4 cm © Hans Hillmann © 2013 Deutsches Plakat Museum at Museum Folkwang Photo: Jens Nober, Museum Folkwang Hans Hillmann Die sieben Samurai [Atlas Filmverleih] Germany, 1962 Paul Robert Wilk, Frankfurt a. M. Offset print 236,0 x 336,0 cm © Hans Hillmann © 2013 Deutsches Plakat Museum, Museum Folkwang Photo: Jens Nober, Museum Folkwang Hans Hillmann Schatten / Shadows / John Cassavetes [Neue Filmkunst Walter Kirchner] Germany, 1968 Paul Robert Wilk, Seulberg/Taunus Offset print 41,8 x 59,2 cm © Hans Hillmann © 2013 Deutsches Plakat Museum, Museum Folkwang Photo: Jens Nober, Museum Folkwang

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