Eduard Hopf

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Mural in the Slomanstieg school in Hamburg-Veddel , destroyed during the National Socialist era, black and white photograph by Carl Dransfeld , 1928
Mural in the Uferstrasse school in Hamburg-Hohenfelde , destroyed during the National Socialist era, black and white photograph by Carl Dransfeld , 1929

Eduard Kaspar Hopf (born January 10, 1901 in Hanau , † November 19, 1973 in Hamburg ) was a German painter of classical modernism .

Life

A goldsmith training in Hanau between 1915 and 1920 was followed by a solo exhibition of his works organized by the Hamburger Kunstverein in 1924 . A year earlier he had relocated there in order to work as a freelance artist. In 1927 and 1928 further joint exhibitions with the Hamburg Secession followed . From 1932 onwards, Hopf, a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 , was able to fall back on a studio in the Ohlendorffhaus , which was destroyed in 1943 and part of his work was lost. The Amsinck Foundation granted him financial support from 1934 to 1936. In 1937 three of his works were classified as degenerate art and confiscated. From 1941 he served as a soldier. Following the great air raid on Lübeck on 28/29. In March 1942 he made about 100 chalk drawings of the destroyed city on behalf of the NSDAP . After the Second World War, he taught at the Hamburg State Art School from 1947 to 1957 . In the following years he created various murals and reliefs in the context of art in architecture . In 1950 he joined the Hamburg Art Association .

literature

  • Maike Bruhns: Hopf, Eduard . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 5 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , p. 192-194 .
  • Holger Carstensen: Eduard Hopf. Figure and movement. Exhibition catalog, Hamburg 2013
  • Holger Carstensen: Eduard Hopf. Nordic landscape. Exhibition catalog, Hamburg 2012
  • Günter Grundmann (ed.): Eduard Hopf. That destroyed Lübeck. Sixty chalk drawings from 1942. Christians, Hamburg 1973
  • Uwe Hauptenthal: Eduard Hopf. Painting and graphic work. Verlag der Kunst Dresden, Dresden 2010, ISBN 978-3-86530-094-2
  • Katharina Heise, Marcus Andrew Hurttig, Ulrich Luckhardt (eds.): Hamburg views - painters see the city. Hamburger Kunsthalle, October 9, 2009 to February 14, 2010. Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-86832-018-3 , p. 188.
  • Karl-Heinz Weidner: The "portfolio" of the Hamburg painter and graphic artist Eduard Hopf. Fischer, Aachen 2006, ISBN 3-89514-594-7
  • Palmarum 1942: Chalk drawings by Eduard Hopf on the bombing of Lübeck; on the occasion of the exhibition in the Kulturforum Burgkloster zu Lübeck from 29.3. - 5/26/02. Kulturforum Burgkloster, Lübeck 2002
  • Eduard Hopf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 484 .

Individual and group exhibitions since 1945 (selection)

  • Eduard Hopf: Figure and Movement. galerie carstensen, Hamburg (catalog), August / September 2013
  • Eduard Hopf: Nordic landscape. galerie carstensen, Hamburg (catalog), August 2012
  • Eduard Hopf - painting and graphics. Museum 'Schloss vor Husum' (catalog), 2010/2011
  • Maike Bruhns Collection. Museum Baden / Funding Association 'Center for Ostracized Arts', Solingen 2010
  • Art of the 20s. Kunsthalle Hamburg (catalog), Hamburg 2010
  • Hamburg views - painters see the city. Kunsthalle Hamburg (catalog), Hamburg 2009
  • Inspiration from the Middle Ages - woodcuts from the Hamburg Secession. Museum of Arts and Crafts Hamburg, Hamburg 2008
  • Artistic tendencies in Hamburg after 1945. HASPA (catalog), Hamburg 2007
  • Eduard Hopf: paintings, drawings, watercolors. Richard Haizmann Museum, Niebüll 2005
  • Palmarum 1942 - The destroyed Lübeck. Burgkloster (catalog), Lübeck 2002
  • Eduard Hopf: Pictures of the Passion , St. Marien Fuhlsbüttel / Hamburg, March / April 2017
  • Eduard Hopf: Norway , St Marien Fuhlsbüttel / Hamburg, September / October 2017

Web links

Commons : Eduard Hopf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietmar Süss : Death from the Air: War Society and Air War in Germany and England. Siedler, Munich 2011, pp. 90f
personal data
SURNAME Hopf, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hopf, Eduard Kaspar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH 19th November 1973
Place of death Hamburg