Jerome Hill

Jerome Hill ( born March 2, 1905 in St. Paul, Minnesota, † November 21, 1972 in New York City ) was an American painter, filmmaker, producer, composer, art patron and philanthropist.

Of special importance was Hill as a patron. He was a member of the super-rich "railway dynasty " of St. Paul and co-heir of the assets of James J. Hill, his grandfather. His father owned pictures by Camille Corot, Eugene Delacroix and Henri Rousseau, and even as a child took Jerome painting lessons. In the late 1920s he bought a house in Cassis (France ), where he spent most of his life. Here he painted over the years, over 300 pictures and started making films. The focus of his film work was on the biographical documentation. After military service in World War II, he created in 1950 as the first self-produced film is a portrait of the famous naive painter Grandma Moses, the 1957 Academy Award ( "Oscar" ) was followed by excellent documentation about the doctor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Schweitzer. In 1961, he turned The Sandcastle, a portrait of the famous Psychonalytikers Carl Gustav Jung. The most famous is still the autobiographical film portrait of 1973, which is preserved as one of the few national film documents the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress ( Washington, DC).

During the 1960s and 1970s, Hill sent a number of endowment funds for the enhancement of the arts. The still existing Avon Foundation ( Jerome Foundation ), and the Camargo Foundation support artists, students and non-commercial art associations. He made a name for himself as a supporter of the Film-Makers ' Cooperative in New York and a friend and supporter of the Fluxus artist George Maciunas, he founded together with the reputation as an artist SoHo district.

Filmography

• American painter
• Film Director
• Oscar winner
• Born 1905
• Died in 1972
• Man