He then toured for a year in Europe working at different galleries before enrolling in the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien and opening a printing business.
[2] Hobart moved to Shelbyville, Indiana, in 1966 from Austria and lived on the 21-acre (8.5 ha) property of Richard and Thelma ('Tee') Fleming, who helped arrange for him to stay and sponsored his art production.
[9] In 1975, Hobart created a mural for the Great Hall of the Phi Kapp Psi fraternity on the campus of Wabash College.
[11] Hobart continued helping youth in Indianapolis create murals as part of the Urban Walls through 1976.
[14] The thermostats were meant to encourage citizens to stay in the temperature regulations during the natural gas crisis of the late 1970s.
[citation needed] Hobart moved to Bloomington, Indiana, in the 1980s, where he continued his artistic career and began consulting for a variety of corporations, including Dynamesh, a company that supplies high quality mesh, screens, and screen printing supplies.