As a church painter Hisgen also painted church ceilings and other works. A first activity as a painter can be traced on a bill from Nieder-Weisel in 1754.Unbekanntes Bild von Hisgen entdeckt, Gießener Zeitung, December 4, 2015. It's unknown where Hisgen learnt the craft of painting, perhaps he was self-taught. In the years 1762/1763 he worked for 126 days on new surfaces for the pulpit and the princes gallery in St. Mary's collegiate church in Lich, for which he received 292 Guilder. In the church in Albach Hisgen decorated the cheeks of the church pews with floral pattern and the corners of the ceiling with angel medallions. In 1778 he gilded the finial, the weathervane and the star of the church in the Ober-Hörgern. In 1780 Hisgen provided the organ case of St. Mary's collegiate church in Lich in 1780 with a new edging and gilding and painted the casing silver.Franz Bösken, Hermann Fischer: Quellen und Forschungen zur Orgelgeschichte des Mittelrheins, Vol. 3: Ehemalige Provinz Oberhessen, suppl. 1 (A–L), Beiträge zur Mittelrheinischen Musikgeschichte 29,1, Schott, Mainz 1988, , p. 609. 1808, in the high age of 75 years, Hisgen painted the church in Odenhausen (Lahn).Weyrauch: Die Kirchen des Altkreises Gießen. 1979, p. 144. In November 2015, a small painting with an idyllic landscape by Hisgen was discovered in Lich.
