Alfred Hoppe (painter)

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Alfred Hoppe (born October 1, 1906 in Colditz , † August 9, 1985 in Leipzig ) was a German painter and graphic artist . He is considered a co-inventor of the hand-drawn illustrated maps printed in the form of postcards .

Life

Alfred Hoppe's grave at the Südfriedhof in Leipzig

The painter and graphic artist, who lives in Leipzig , had the idea of designing illustrated postcards with colorful maps from all the vacation areas of the GDR, which were published by VEB Volkskunstverlag Reichenbach in Vogtland from 1954 , later renamed VEB Bild und Heimat, the largest postcard publisher in the GDR high editions have appeared. 68 illustrated holiday cards or cheerful patchworks come from his pen. His cards are still coveted collectibles today and were later copied by other graphic artists. Hoppe is also the creator of the crispbread packaging for the burger crispbread .

Publications

  • Greetings from the Baltic Sea - cheerful postcards from Alfred Hoppe. Berlin 2017, Verlag Bild und Heimat, 48 pages, 14.5 cm × 14.5 cm, ISBN 978-3-95958-078-6
  • Many greetings from the Ore Mountains and Vogtland 2018 - cheerful views from Alfred Hoppe. Calendar (A4), Reichenbach im Vogtland 2017, ISBN 978-3-7310-1094-4
  • Greetings from the Baltic Sea 2018 - cheerful views from Alfred Hoppe. Calendar (A4), Reichenbach im Vogtland 2017, ISBN 978-3-7310-1097-5

Web links

Varia

  • Hoppe created the postcard “Between Collm and Mulde” at the suggestion of Manfred Müller, the long-time editor of “Der Rundblick. Kulturspiegel der Kreis Wurzen, Oschatz, Grimma ”and because of its assurance that the editors would order a few hundred copies from the publisher.
  • A little later, the Rundblick editorial team engaged Hoppe as a cartographer for some black and white, factual village portraits in their publication; Hoppe drew views of Kühren , Beiersdorf , Dürrweitzschen and Cavertitz .

literature

  • Haig Latchinian : Rundblick-Müller reveals: This is how Hoppe's legendary Mulde postcard was created - after the LVZ article about the draftsman Alfred Hoppe, the local history researcher speaks out. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , Muldental edition, February 18, 2017, page 30
  • Haig Latchinian: Everything on one card: Alfred Hoppe and the East. Every trained Ossi knows the illustrated postcards: Whether the Baltic Sea, Thuringian Forest or the Ore Mountains - around 80 motifs were created by commercial artist Alfred Hoppe. The production of the cards has long been discontinued, but they are still popular with collectors. The artist is not forgotten, daughter Monika Krause in Naunhof honors his memory. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung, Muldental edition, February 10, 2017, page 31 (full-page newspaper article)
  • Frank Schmidt: Philatelic Association Grimma with a themed evening about Alfred Hoppe postcards . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung online, April 11, 2016
  • Elof Hauschld, Volkmar Mehlitz: DDR-Luftfahrt Companycard, special catalog . Aero-Philatelisten-Club Deutschland eV (APCD), series issue 9, part 6, 2009
  • Ingrid Hildebrandt: An ideal world with a little wink . In: Freie Presse , January 12, 2007
  • Manfred Kretzschmar, Bernd Stasche: The route maps of Deutsche Lufthansa and INTERFLUG of the GDR . Aero-Philatelisten-Club Deutschland eV (APCD), series issue 7, 2005
  • Eckhard Neumann (ed.): Bauhaus and Bauhäusler: Memories and Confessions . Extended new edition 1985, Cologne: DuMont, 1996 ISBN 3-7701-1673-9 , pp. 355-357
  • Heinz Thümmler: Obituary for Alfred Hoppe . Magazine "Der Rundblick - Kulturspiegel der Kreis Wurzen, Oschatz, Grimma", issue 1/1988, ISSN  0483-5670

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Hülsse from Ahrenshoop created the first maps of this kind in 1951 for holiday areas in the GDR. - Source: www.post -sichtskarten-museum-rügen.de: Card of the month January 2016
  2. ↑ Numerous examples of the Hoppe cards
  3. ↑ DNB 1120720028
  4. ↑ DNB 112071656X
  5. ↑ DNB 1120717248
  6. ↑ ISSN  0483-5670
  7. ↑ Haig Latchinian: Rundblick-Müller reveals: This is how Hoppe's legendary Mulde postcard was created - after the LVZ article about the draftsman Alfred Hoppe, the local historian speaks up. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung, Muldental edition, February 18, 2017, page 30
personal data
SURNAME Hoppe, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Colditz
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1985
Place of death Leipzig