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Willy on Wikipedia

Thanks to the Wikipedia expertise of author Zoë S. Roy (Calls Across the Pacific Inanna 2015; The Long March Home, Inanna, 2011 and Butterfly Tears, Inanna 2009) my great-uncle Willy Fick has a fantastic-looking Wikipedia entry. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Fick. Read about Fick’s past in Cologne, Germany where he was a dada artist and also read about “A Dadaist in Whitby”.

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From the Wikipedia Website about Willy Fick: A Dadaist in Whitby

In 1945 Fick started designing hospitals and public buildings for the High Rise Division of the City of Cologne. In recognition for his success as an artist, he was given one day off per week to pursue his art. He did not actively pursue exhibition but he did show works at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in 1959–60, at the Museum Kunstpalast /Duesseldorf Museum in 1960 and occasionally in the Aloys Faust Gallery. When his only living relative, his nephew Frank Eggert, moved to Whitby, Ontario, Fick began the first of six three-month visits; these took place between 1954 and 1967. During his time in Whitby Fick painted. Applying the eyes of his European art experiences to the Canadian landscape Fick created a unique European-Canadian fusion. When he retired from the City of Cologne in 1956 Fick travelled extensively during which time he regaled his Canadian family with illustrated letters. The letters demonstrate Fick’s lifelong love of cartooning. By the mid-1960s Fick's emphysema slowed down art and travel. He managed to execute black marker sketches of scenes in Whitby and two days before his death he was installed by Professor Michel Sanouillet as an honorary member of the International Dada and Surrealism Association in recognition of his contributions to dada in Cologne. Willy Fick was buried in Whitby on October 5, 1967.

More Willy in the World

In 2015, 180 pieces of documentation related to Willy Fick and the dada period in Cologne went to the Rheinisches Archiv Kuenstlernachlaesse, an archive for artists’ estates in Bonn, Germany. RAK holds letters, documents and photos while the Art Gallery of Ontario hosts the Fick-Eggert Collection of original art works from the dada period in Cologne. The two organizations are in a digital partnership so that scholars may benefit from seeing the art and the supporting documentation. See the list of artists Fick joins at: http://www.rak-bonn.de/text/bestaende.htm

pdf with images and description

colour images, oil on board, measurements in cm

Moon
Willy Fick, oil, 32x30

Arrow
Willy Fick, oil, 75x49.5

Fire
Willy Fick, oil, 26x25

Frank Eggert
Willy Fick, watercolour, 39x 52

The Flying Vase
Willy Fick, oil, 23x26

The Old Orchard
Willy Fick, oil, 31.5x51.5

Through a Kaleidoscope
Willy Fick, oil, 52.5x`75

Transcendence
Willy Fick, oil, 108x73

Ballenbaum (Balloon Tree)

Redner | Speaker | jpg

Dorfstrasse | City Street

Maedchen in Halle (Girl in a Hall)

Akt (Nude)

Diabolo

Glasdach | Glass House | jpg

Boxer

Depression

Groteske (Grotesque)

Morceau | jpg

Schornsteine (Chimneys)