Marta Hoepffner | |
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Born | Pirmasens, Germany | January 4, 1912
Died | April 3, 2000 Lindenberg im Allgäu, Germany | (aged 88)
Known for | Photography |
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]