Emil Otto Hoppé

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Emil Otto Hoppé, portrayed by Minya Diez-Dührkoop in 1908

Emil Otto Hoppé (born April 14, 1878 in Munich , † October 9, 1972 in London ) was a photographer . His name is often abbreviated as "EO Hoppe". Hoppé was one of the most important portrait photographers of his time. However, he was also known for his landscape and architecture photographs. His style is assigned to pictorialism .

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Memorial plaque for Emil Otto Hoppé in London, 7 Cromwell Place

Emil Otto Hoppé was born into a banking family in Munich . In 1900 he moved to London , where he initially worked for Deutsche Bank . From 1903 he became an amateur photographer and joined the Royal Photographic Society . In 1905 he married Marion Bliersbach.

In 1907 he became a member of the Royal Photographic Society . From 1907 to 1911 he worked with EF Griffin as a portrait photographer in London. He organized numerous exhibitions . In 1909 he represented Great Britain at the International Photography Exhibition in Dresden. The following year, 70 portrait photographs by Hoppé were shown at an exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society. It was the first exhibition the Society dedicated to a single photographer.

In 1911, Hoppé set up his own photo studio in London's Baker Street . Just two years later, the studio moved to South Kensington . From 1914 he contributed as an art editor to the new art magazine Color . In 1916 he photographed for the first British issue of Vogue magazine .

In 1921 he photographed portraits of King George V and Queen Mary in Buckingham Palace , which were distributed worldwide as postcards and posters. For this he used a Leica with comparatively long exposure times. He also traveled to New York to photograph the city and take portraits.

In the following years he made numerous trips to collect material for book publications. In 1923 he visited Romania as a guest of Queen Marys and the Romanian royal family. A stay in a gypsy camp was part of this trip. In 1925, Hoppé photographed landscapes in Great Britain and Ireland for the Orbis Terrarum book series . In 1926 he traveled to North America , Cuba , Jamaica and the British West Indies to pick up motifs for the book Romantic America . In 1928 Hoppé traveled to Germany and found motifs for two books that were published in Germany over the next few years. From 1933 to 1938 he traveled to Africa , Bavaria , Poland and Czechoslovakia . In 1939 he returned to London. There he headed the Dorien Leigh Photographic Agency.

In 1954 the exhibition A Half Century of Photography was opened in the Foyles Art Gallery in London , which was later to be shown in his birthplace Munich in the Lenbachhaus and in the Far East . In 1968, on the occasion of his 90th birthday, another retrospective exhibition was held at the Kodak Gallery in London .

Hoppé died in London on October 9, 1972 at the age of 94.

Collections

Collections exist at:

Works (selection)

  • Small town romance: a journey of discovery through old Germany , translated by Else Baronin Werkmann ; F. Brinkmann, Munich 1929
  • German work. Pictures of the resurgence of Germany , preface by Bruno H. Bürgel ; Ullstein AG, Berlin 1930

literature

  • Roland Jaeger: On the way to modernity. The German-language photo books by Emil Otto Hoppé. In: Manfred Heiting, Roland Jaeger (Hrsg.): Autopsy. German-language photo books 1918 to 1945. Volume 1. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, 2012, pp. 224–247. ISBN 978-3-86930-412-0 .
  • EM Bohne: A master of the camera: EO Hoppé . In: Reclams Universum , Heft 3, 50th vol., Oct. 19, 1933, pp. 100-101 (with 5 illustrations).

Special exhibitions

  • 2011: people, things human work. Emil Otto Hoppé - Photographs 1925 to 1928. Berlinische Galerie , Berlin 2010
  • 2017: EO Hoppé - Unveiling a Secret. , Photographic collection of the SK Stiftung Kultur , Cologne (in collaboration with Fondazione MAST, Bologna, and EO Hoppé Estate Collection / Curatorial Assistance, California), curator Urs Stahel

Web links

Commons : Emil Otto Hoppé  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Website of the HRC