Career
An example is Speaker, in which a man whose gesture resembles a distorted Nazi salute is observed by empty human silhouettes and masks. On the table in front of him is a sheet of paper inscribed with the letters ABDH, a reference to the factory code of the Heinkel He 111, a bomber which began production in 1935 in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Fick was condemned by the Nazis as a degenerate artist.
Much of his work was destroyed during the bombing of Cologne in 1944.
He died in Canada in 1967.