Greg and Tim Hildebrandt: The Tolkien Years
During the s Tim and Greg Hildebrandt, twins and fantasy illustrators, produced three calendars for Ballantine Books featuring paintings inspired by The Lord of the Rings, by JRR Tolkien.
This coffee-table collection gathers all the art pieces for those calendars, along with a variety of sketches and photographs used in the creation of the paintings. These are accompanied by a delightful commentary written by Greg’s son, Greg Junior, who was the chief model for the hobbits featured in the artworks. Greg Jr was only between five and seven years old at the time the calendar art was being created and he shares a child’s delight and sometimes terror at living in a house with two rather eccentric artists, who he believed were friends with wizards and with Tom Bombadil.
When I was small, I remember reading over and over my parents’ copy of David Day’s Tolkien Beastiary, with its horrible monsters and beautiful places and creatures. I feel the Brothers Hildebrandt’s collection could be another of those – a book to be admired and pored over by dreamers of all ag
The year was Franklin Delano Roosevelt was in the White House. Hitler was waging war on Britain and France. Over million people lined up to see The Wizard of OZ, the Yankees won the World Series, a loaf of bread cost 8 cents, and, on January 23, the Brothers Hildebrandt were born. Greg and Tim would work together and separately, and together again, winning awards and world fame.
They created everything from their fantasy novel, Urshurak, to the world renowned poster for Star Wars, to the best-selling calendars illustrating J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. Together they also won the coveted Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators.
Greg and Tim were strongly influenced by many great comic books, like Green Lantern, Terry & the Pirates, Steve Canyon, Prince Valiant, Wonder Woman, Batman, and Superman. They were captivated by other forms of fantasy as well including marionettes, especially Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy; science fiction novels and films, including Frankenstein, When Worlds Collide and War of the Worlds; and illustrators N.C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish. Perhaps their biggest influence was Walt Disney, especially his Snow White and Fantasia.
For years th
Brothers Hildebrandt Explained
Greg (January 23, – October 31, ) and Tim Hildebrandt (January 23, – June 11, ), known as the Brothers Hildebrandt, were American twin brothers who worked collaboratively as fantasy and science fiction artists for many years, produced illustrations for comic books, movie posters, children's books, posters, novels, calendars, advertisements, and trading cards.[1]
Career
Born in Detroit, Michigan,[2] Greg and Tim Hildebrandt studied at the Meinzinger Art School,[3] and began painting professionally in as the Brothers Hildebrandt. The brothers both held an ambition to work as animators for Walt Disney, and although they never realized this dream, their work was heavily influenced by illustration style of Disney feature films such as Snow White, Pinocchio and Fantasia. They were also influenced by the artwork in comic books and science fiction books, notably the work of Norman Rockwell and Maxfield Parrish.[4]
The brothers are best known for their popular The Lord of the Rings calendar illustrations, illustrating comics for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, original oil paintings for a limited edition of Terry Brooks's The Sword o
Twin brothers Greg and Tim Hildebrandt were fascinated since childhood by science fiction, comic books, and the movies. Inseparable since birth, the brothers lives and careers shared the same trajectory and major events. Joining the peacetime Army after high school, the brothers were subjects of military tests for extrasensory perception and demonstrated their psychic ability to "be in the other's head", accurately recalling something only the other had seen. Uniquely, but perhaps not surprisingly given this ability to share visual imagery, the Brothers would work in tandem on larger scale paintings, working on either side of the canvas towards the middle or in consecutive shifts. Each brother's individual contribution to the final work is indiscernible. Following their brief stint in the Army, the Brothers attended the Menzinger School of Art in Detroit but their academic career was short-lived. Having honed their artistic talent much earlier in life, the twins set out to pursue work in animation and by the mid-sixties, the Brothers were designing films, creating story boards, and mastering stop motion and live-acti
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