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Marta Hoepffner

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Marta Hoepffner
Born(1912-01-04)January 4, 1912
Pirmasens, Germany
DiedApril 3, 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 January 4, 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 April 3, 2000in 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]

  1. ^ a b c d "Marta Hoepffner". AWARE Women artists / Femmes artistes. Retrieved 24 June 2024.
  2. ^ a b "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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