Marta Hoepffner
Marta Hoepffner (1912–2000) was a German artist and photographer. She is known for her abstract and experimental photography. Hoepffner was born on 4 January 1912 in Pirmasens.
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Marta Hoepffner
- Name
- Marta Hoepffner
- Born
- 4 January 1912
- Birthplace
- Pirmasens, Germany
- Died
- 3 April 2000
- Place of death
- Lindenberg im Allgäu, Germany
- Field
- Photography
- Nationality
- Germany.
- Occupation
- photographer.
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Marta Hoepffner (1912–2000) was a German artist and photographer. She is known for her abstract and experimental photography. Hoepffner was born on 4 January 1912 in Pirmasens.
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Biography
Biography
She studied at the Städelschule under Willi Baumeister and participated at the New Frankfurt-project. She graduated in 1933. Remaining in Germany during World War II, Hoepffner worked as an illustrator for the magazine Das Illustrierte Blatt. After the war Hoepffner began creating color photograms. 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. Hoepffner died on 3 April 2000 in Lindenberg im Allgäu. Her work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Städel Museum. Hoepffner's work was included in the 2021 exhibition Women in Abstraction at the Centre Pompidou.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Marta Hoepffner • Born — 4 January 1912 • Birthplace — Pirmasens, Germany • Died — 3 April 2000 • Place of death — Lindenberg im Allgäu, Germany • Field — Photography
Identity
Identity
Marta Hoepffner is recorded as photographer. Hoepffner received Maria Sibylla Merian-Preis.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1912
Marta Hoepffner born at Pirmasens.
2000
Marta Hoepffner died at Lindenberg im Allgäu.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q87023: Marta Hoepffner
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 10059866-3, Marta Hoepffner-Gesellschaft für Fotografie.
General reference · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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- “Marta Hoepffner”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- 1.Biografie bei 'Stadtmuseum Hofheim'
- 2.Selbstzeugnis Marta Hoepffner „Mein Studium an der Frankfurter Kunstschule“ in: Wolfgang Kermer: Der schöpferische Winkel: Willi Baumeisters pädagogische Tätigkeit. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, hrsg. von Wolfgang Kermer, Bd. 7. Ostfildern-Ruit, Edition Cantz, 1992, ISBN 3-89322-420-3, S. 178–179
- 3.Marta Hoepffner. Fotografien und Lichtobjekte. Ausstellungskatalog Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, 1984, S. 50
- 4.Ausstellung des Zeppelin Museums
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q87023: Marta HoepffnerWikimedia Foundation
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 10059866-3, Marta Hoepffner-Gesellschaft für Fotografie.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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