Fredric Hobbs

Fredric Hobbs was born on Dec 30, 1931 in USA. Fredric Hobbs's big-screen debut came with Troika directed by Fredric Hobbs in 1969.

Artist and filmmaker Fredric Hobbs was born on December 30, 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Hobbs attended Menlo School in Menlo, California and graduated from Cornell University in 1953 with a B.A. in History. Following service as an Air Force Officer, Fredric maintained a studio in Madrid, Spain where he attended the Academia de San Fernando de Bellas Artes. (Hobbs later had studios based in both San Francisco and Carmel, California.) In 1963 Fredric created a radical new type of automobile art called "Parade Sculptures." This trio of driveable sculptures -- Sun Chariot, Three Thieves, and Trojan Horse, respectively -- removed art from its museum environment, thereby confronting a mass audience under circumstances of everyday life. Moreover, these three parade pieces were exhibited in both New York and California as well as were featured as part of a famous national traveling show entitled The Highway.