Marta Hoepffner
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| Born | 4 January 1912 Pirmasens, Germany |
| Died | 3 April 2000 (aged 88) Lindenberg im Allgäu, Germany |
| Known for | Photography |
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
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Marta Hoepffner". AWARE Women artists / Femmes artistes. Retrieved 24 June 2024.
- ^ a b "Martha Hoepffner". RKD Research. Retrieved 24 June 2024.
- ^ Kynoch, Gabby (4 January 2022). "Marta Hoepffner - German Photographer". Hundred Heroines. Retrieved 24 June 2024.
- ^ "Marta Hoepffner | Hommage à Kandinsky". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 24 June 2024.
- ^ "The Plunge into the Deep". National Gallery of Art. Retrieved 24 June 2024.
- ^ "Marta Hoepffner". Städel Museum Digital Collection. Retrieved 24 June 2024.
- ^ Women in abstraction. London : New York, New York: Thames & Hudson Ltd. ; Thames & Hudson Inc. 2021. p. 170. ISBN 978-0500094372.
External links
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Media related to Marta Hoepffner at Wikimedia Commons- of Marta Hoepffner's work on ArtNet
- Between Technology and Art: Photographic Education with Marta Hoepffne Zeppelin Museum
