Franz Hecker (1870 - 1944)

Franz Hecker

Franz Hecker was a German painter and graphic artist. He studied painting at the Dusseldorf Academy of Art and at the Académie Julian in Paris with William Adolphe Bouguereau.

Many of Franz Hecker's works focused on scenic motifs and Berzenbrück personalities and were inspired by Impressionism . In all, he created more than a thousand works in different techniques. He also painted murals in the conference rooms of the Berzenbrücke town hall. Some of Hecker's early works were considered "degenerate" by the Nazis, and in 1937 they were confiscated and destroyed.