Frank Hoppmann

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Frank Hoppmann wins the German Caricature Prize in Dresden in 2017

Frank Hoppmann (born April 2, 1975 in Lingen ) is a German draftsman , caricaturist and illustrator .

Life

Hoppmann grew up in Emsbüren in the Emsland and attended the Georgianum grammar school in Lingen (Ems) . After graduating from high school in 1994, he studied design with a focus on drawing , illustration and printmaking at the Münster University of Applied Sciences . During his studies he devoted himself extensively to drawing, worked a. a. as a court draftsman for television companies and daily newspapers. In 1997 he published his first drawings in the satirical magazine Eulenspiegel .

In 2002 he got his diploma with the topic "Liquor lover has many faces", a satirical , socially critical series with over 50 large-format portraits and around 200 sketches of drunk women and men. He has been a freelance draftsman since 2002 .

In 2005 he received the eoplauen award in Plauen . There the first encounter with the draftsman Tomi Ungerer took place, who received the main prize. Today a picture by Hoppmann hangs in the Museum Tomi Ungerer-International Center for Illustration in Strasbourg . It is a portrait of Tomi Ungerer.

In 2007 he received the artist grant of the Emsländische Landschaft eV; associated with this were longer working stays at Schloss Clemenswerth and in a Nordhorn city park villa. Exhibitions and participation in exhibitions at home and abroad followed.

In 2008 FW Bernstein invited him to take part in his anniversary exhibition for his 70th birthday.

In autumn 2012 he was honored with a ribbon in the series "Masters of the Comic Art". This library presents the most important German-speaking artists who have accompanied current events and our society since around 1950 with pencil, brush and verbal power, explaining them and recording the comic with the necessary seriousness. This puts him in a row next to FK Waechter , Chlodwig Poth , Ernst Kahl , Gerhard Glück , Marie Marcks , Robert Gernhardt , Rudi Hurzlmeier , FW Bernstein and Hans Traxler .

In 2015, the Berlin-based Schaltzeit Verlag developed the children's book "The Adventures of Pit and Peggs - The Journey to the Flower Parade" in collaboration with the author Dörte Grimm and Frank Hoppmann. Originally it was a children's story for a cartoon from 1936, conceived by the Jewish painter Felix Nussbaum together with his friend Michael Loewen. The cartoon with the characters Pit and Peggs, however, never came about. But 29 black and white photographs of the original drawings have been preserved.

Frank Hoppmann lives and works in Münster . He draws for journals and magazines, including Die Welt am Sonntag , Rolling Stone magazine, satirical magazine Eulenspiegel , Manager Magazin , and other publications. a. for the Stern or the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

Awards

  • 2005: Advancement award of the eoplauen price
  • 2005: Vinum et Litterae, 1st place (Austrian Prize for Wine and Literature)
  • 2005: Flashback , 2nd place in the category: Caricatures
  • 2007: Artist grant Emsländische Landschaft eV
  • 2008: Austrian Cartoon Award, international cartoon competition, 2nd place
  • 2009: German Cartoon Prize, 1st place
  • 2011: Honorable Mention at the 26th International Biennial of Humor in Art in the city of Tolentino , Italy
  • 2011: Shortlist at the international LICC Art Prize 2011 in London
  • 2012: Award of Excellence from the European Newspaper Awards in the Illustration category
  • 2014: Award from the Art Directors Club Germany (ADC) eV
  • 2014: Merit Award from “3x3 magazine”, New York
  • 2014: AWARD OF EXCELLENCE from SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN in the illustration category
  • 2016: Shortlist at the international LICC art award 2016 in London
  • 2016: Merit Award from 3x3 magazine, New York for the Donald Trump illustration in the Los Angeles Times
  • 2017: AWARD OF EXCELLENCE from SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN for the Donald Trump illustration
  • 2017: Overall winner of the German Caricature Award
  • 2017: Winner of the gold medal at the international illustration competition IJUNGLE-AWARD, editorial category
  • 2018: Scholarship prize of the Sokol Prize for digital caricature, critical art of drawing and satire, Krems, Lower Austria
  • 2018: Grand Thomas Nast Prize

Book publications

  • Politicians. Satirical portraits by Frank Hoppmann . Catalog for the exhibition in the Lower Saxony state parliament. Cathedral bookstore. Osnabrück. 2012. ISBN 978-3-925164-58-3 .
  • Animalism . Exhibition catalog. Publisher Antje Kunstmann. Munich 2017. ISBN 978-3-95614-222-2 .

Solo exhibitions (in selection)

  • 2005
    • “Portraits”, eoplauen sponsorship award exhibition, gallery in the Malzhaus, eoplauen gallery
    • "Drawings - Illustrations - Caricatures", 30 years of the Emsbürener Musiktage
  • 2007
    • "Caricatures - Illustrations - Drawings", art in the district building, Nordhorn
    • "Portraits", Museum of the Osnabrück District, Bersenbrück
  • 2008
    • "Exaggeration - alienation - grotesque", Emslandmuseum Schloss Clemenswerth, Sögel
    • "Hessenköpp - FW Bernstein and Frank Hoppmann", Caricatura - Gallery for Comical Art, Kassel
    • “Heads: From Kohl to Cash”, House of the Netherlands, Münster
  • 2010: "Character Heads - Satirical Portraits by Frank Hoppmann", Brandenburg State Center for Political Education
  • 2012: "Political Heads - Satirical Portraits by Frank Hoppmann", Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover
  • 2017: “Vis – à – vis – à – vis” satirical portraits of German Chancellors and French Presidents after 1945 in the Simplicissimus House in Renchen
  • 2017: “The Wonder World of Pictures”, eoplauen & Frank Hoppmann, Galerie eoplauen, Erich-Ohser-Haus, Plauen 
  • 2017: "Animalism", Caricatura Museum for Komische Kunst , Frankfurt am Main
  • 2018: "Frank Hoppmann", Old Town Hall , Göttingen

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personal data
SURNAME Hoppmann, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH April 2nd, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Lingen