Marta Hoepffner

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Marta Hoepffner
File:1943-Marta-Hoepffner.jpg
Born(1912-01-04)4 January 1912
Pirmasens, Germany
Died3 April 2000(2000-04-03) (aged 88)
Lindenberg im Allgäu, Germany
Known forPhotography

Marta Hoepffner (1912–2000) was a German artist and photographer. She is known for her abstract and experimental photography.[1] Hoepffner was born on 4 January 1912 in Pirmasens.[2] She studied at the Städelschule under Willi Baumeister and participated at the New Frankfurt-project.[3] She graduated in 1933. Remaining in Germany during World War II, Hoepffner worked as an illustrator for the magazine Das Illustrierte Blatt.[1] After the war Hoepffner began creating color photograms.[1] Hoepffner taught at a photography school in Hofheim am Taunus along with her partner and fellow photographer, Irm Schoeffers, and her sister sister, Madeleine Hoepffner.[1] Hoepffner died on 3 April 2000 in Lindenberg im Allgäu.[2] Her work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[4] the National Gallery of Art,[5] and the Städel Museum.[6] Hoepffner's work was included in the 2021 exhibition Women in Abstraction at the Centre Pompidou.[7]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Marta Hoepffner". AWARE Women artists / Femmes artistes. Retrieved 24 June 2024.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Martha Hoepffner". RKD Research. Retrieved 24 June 2024.
  3. Kynoch, Gabby (4 January 2022). "Marta Hoepffner - German Photographer". Hundred Heroines. Retrieved 24 June 2024.
  4. "Marta Hoepffner | Hommage à Kandinsky". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 24 June 2024.
  5. "Marta Hoepffner". Städel Museum Digital Collection. Retrieved 24 June 2024.
  6. Women in abstraction. London : New York, New York: Thames & Hudson Ltd. ; Thames & Hudson Inc. 2021. p. 170. ISBN 978-0500094372.

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