Biography
Hector Trotin (b. Paris, France 1894 - d. 1966) was the son of an antique dealer but sold his father's shop when he died. He recoloured old maps for dealers, faked drawings from the 1830s and produced ‘antiqued’ trade signs for shopkeepers. He developed his own naive style of colourful tributes to the Paris of his childhood. In 1953 a painting professor Heinz Poreb came across a Trotin oil for sale in a junk shop in Saint-Germaindes-Prés. He showed the work to the Munich dealer Dr Hans Fetscherin who instantly saw its potential and the Bavarian dealer gradually built up a small body of Trotin's work by buying a few pieces each time he returned to Paris and by 1957 he held the first Trotin exhibition in Munich which was reviewed in Der Spiegl.