E.O. Hoppé
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Emil Otto Hoppé (1878 – 1972) was a portrait, travel, and topographic photographer active between 1907 and 1945. Although Hoppé was one of the most important photographic artists of his era and highly celebrated in his time, his body of photographic work sat entombed in a London picture library for over thirty years after his death, which led to his being forgotten in the latter half of the twentieth century.
In 1994 photographic art curator Graham Howe retrieved Hoppé's photographic work from the picture library and rejoined it with the Hoppé family archive of photographs and biographical documents, reconstituting for the first time since 1954 the complete E.O. Hoppé Collection. After many years of cataloguing, conservation, and research, the rediscovery of E.O. Hoppé's extraordinary output can now be seen for the first time in over sixty years.
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Work
Portraits and Typologies
In his life, Hoppé's reputation drew to him many important British and North American personalities in politics, literature, and the arts. In the era between the wars, Hoppé photographed, among others, Queen Mary, King George, and members of the Royal family, Albert Einstein, Benito Mussolini, Calvin Coolidge, T.S. Eliot, H.G. Wells, Robert Frost, Aldous Huxley, George Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, A.A. Milne, Leon Bakst, and Vaslav Nijinsky and the dancers of the Ballets Russes. Working from a studio first in London's Baron's Court and then expanding to occupy all thirty-three rooms of Sir John Millais' house (which also belonged to Francis Bacon), Hoppé also made portraits of the street types of London. English cleaners, maids, and street vendors were photographed both in his studio and on the street. He continued this practice of capturing ordinary working men and women throughout his career as he travelled throughout the world.
Travel and Landscape
By 1919 Hoppé had begun to travel the world in search of new subjects and landscapes. His journeys brought him to Africa, Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, the United States, Cuba, Jamaica and the West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaya, India and Ceylon, and the resulting photographs were published in a number of books.
Publications
- The Book of Fair Women, (New York: Knopf, 1922) and (London: Jonathan Cape, 1922)
- Taken From Life, text by J.D. Beresford, (London: W. Collins Sons & Co., Ltd., 1922)
- In gipsy camp and royal palace. Wanderings in Rumania, preface by the Queen of Rumania (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1924)
- A collection of photographic masterpieces by E.O. Hoppé, English/Japanese, (Tokyo: Ausstellungskatalog, 1925)
- London Types: Taken from Life, text by W. Pett Ridge, (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1926)
- Forty London Statues and Public Monuments, (London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1926)
- Picturesque Great Britain: The Architecture and the Landscape, introduction by Charles G. Masterman (New York: Brentano's Publishers, 1926) and England (Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1926)
- Fire under the Andes. A group of North American portraits, text by Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, photographs by Hoppé (New York: Knopf, 1927)
- Romantic America: Picturesque United States (New York: B. Westermann Co., Inc., 1927) and Das Romantische Amerika (Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth AG., 1927)
- Deutsche Arbeit ("German Work"), (Berlin: Ullstein, 1930)
- The Fifth Continent, (London: Simpkin Marshall Ltd., 1931)
- Romantik der Kleinstadt (Romantic Towns), (Munich: Verlag F. Bruckmann, 1932)
- The Face of Mother India, by Katherine Mayo, (1935)
- The Image of London, (London: Chatto & Windus, 1935)
- A Camera on Unknown London, (London: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1936)
- The London of George VI, (London: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1937)
- The Glory that was Grub Street: Impressions of contemporary authors, text by Arthur St. John Adcock (London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., Ltd., date unknown)
- Hundred thousand exposures. The success of a photographer, introduction by Cecil Beaton (London/New York: Focal Press, 1945)
- Rural London in Pictures, (London: Odhams Press Ltd., 1951)
- Blaue Berge von Jamaica (Blue Mountains of Jamaica), with Karl-Heinz Jaeckel (Verlag, 1956)
- Hoppé's London, essay by Mark Haworth-Booth (London: Guiding Light, 2006)
- E. O. Hoppe's Amerika: Modernist Photographs from the 1920s[1]
- E.O. Hoppé's Australia, essays by Graham Howe and Erika Esau (New York: W.W. Norton, 2007)
- E.O. Hoppé: The German Photographs, 1925-1938 (2009)
- E.O. Hoppé's The English, essay by Philip Prodger (2009)
- E.O. Hoppé's Indian Subcontinent of the Cusp of Change (2009)
- E.O. Hoppé: The British Machine, Photographs of Industrial Britain Between the Wars, essay by Philip Prodger (2009)
- E.O. Hoppé: Diaghilev's Russian Ballet (2009)
Exhibitions
- International Exhibition of Photography, Dresden, 1909
- Royal Photographic Society, London, 1910
- Goupil Gallery, London, 1913
- Wannamaker's Gallery, New York, 1921
- Goupil Gallery, London, catalogue introduction by John Galsworthy, 1922
- Victoria and Albert Museum, International Theatre Exhibition, 1922
- Photographic Masterpieces by E.O. Hoppé, staged by Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo and Osaka, 1925
- Dover Gallery, London, 1927
- 79 Camera Pictures, David Jones' Department Store, Sydney, 1930
- A Half Century of Photography, Foyles Art Gallery, London, 1954
- A Half Century of Photography, Lenbachhaus, Munich, 1954
- A Half Century of Photography, traveling exhibition by the British Council in India, 1954-56
- Retrospective, Kodak Gallery, London, 1968
- London, Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, 2006
- Amerika, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, 2007
- Australia, Customs House, Sydney, 2007
Images
Collections
- National Portrait Gallery (London)
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
- National Media Museum, Bradford
- George Eastman House at Rochester
- Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin (Gernsheim Collection)
- New York Public Library
- National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
- National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.
Galleries
- Michael Hoppen Gallery, London
- Flo Peters Gallery, Hamburg
- Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York
- Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney
Price History
- $13,200, Christie's New York, 2006 September: Steel Workers, Lincoln Liberty Building, Philadelphia, 1926
- $21,400, Art Basel, 2008 June: The Making of the Graf Zeppelin, Freidrichshafen, Germany, 1928
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