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E. O. Hoppé

December 01, 2023

Emil Otto Hoppé (14 April 1878 – 9 December 1972) was a German-born British portrait, travel, and topographic photographer active between 1907 and 1945. Born to a wealthy family in Munich, he moved to London in 1900 to train as a financier, but took up photography and rapidly achieved great success.

Hoppé in 1972

He was the only son of a prominent banker, and was educated in the finest schools of Munich, Paris and Vienna. Upon leaving school he served apprenticeships in German banks for ten years, before accepting a position with the Shanghai Banking Corporation. He never arrived in China. The first leg of his journey took him to England where he met an old school friend. Hoppé married his old school friend's sister, Marion Bliersbach, and stayed in London. While working for the Deutsche Bank, he became increasingly enamored with photography, and, in 1907, jettisoned his commercial career and opened a portrait studio. According to Bill Jay,

"Within a few years, E.O. Hoppé was the undisputed leader of pictorial portraiture in Europe. To say that someone has a "household name" has become a cliché, yet in Hoppé's case the phrase is apt. Rarely in the history of the medium has a photographer been so famous in his own lifetime among the general public. He was as famous as his sitters. It is difficult to think of a prominent name in the fields of politics, art, literature, and the theatre who did not pose for his camera."[1]

Although Hoppé was one of the most important photographic artists of his era and highly celebrated in his time, in 1954, at the age of 76, he sold his body of photographic work to a commercial London picture archive, the Mansell Collection. In the collection, the work was filed by subject in with millions of other stock pictures and no longer accessible by author. Almost all of Hoppé's photographic work—that which gained him the reputation as Britain's most influential international photographer between 1907 and 1939—was accidentally obscured from photo-historians and from photo-history itself. It remained in the collection for over thirty years after Hoppé's death, and was not fully accessible to the public until the collection closed down and was acquired by new owners in the United States.

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. This was the first time since 1954 that the complete E.O. Hoppé Collection was gathered together. Many years were spent in cataloguing, conservation, and research of the recovered work.

Work edit

Portraits and typologies edit

 
Blue plaque outside the house at 7 Cromwell Place, Kensington, London where Hoppe once lived from 1913

In his life, Hoppé's reputation attracted many important British and North American figures in politics, literature, and the arts. In the era before the first World War, Hoppé photographed many leading literary subjects and figures from the art world, such as Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, John Masefield, Léon Bakst, Anna Pavlova, Tamara Karsavina and other dancers of the Ballets Russes, Violet Hunt, Richard Strauss, Jacob Epstein and William Nicholson, some of whom were included in his 1913 exhibition. In the early 1920s he was invited to photograph Queen Mary, King George, and members of the royal family. Other subjects of the 1920s included Albert Einstein, Benito Mussolini, Robert Frost, Aldous Huxley, George Bernard Shaw and A.A. Milne. In the 1930s Hoppé photographed a number of dancers at the Vic-Wells company including Margot Fonteyn, Ninette de Valois, Hermione Darnborough and Beatrice Appleyard.

In 1925 he contributed female nude portraits to Peter Landow's book Natur und Kultur: Das Weib ("Nature and Culture: Woman").

Working from a studio first in London's Baron's Court at 10 Margravine Gardens (1907–10), he later moved in 1911 to a Baker Street studio. In 1913 he took on a lease of 7 Cromwell Place, occupying all thirty-three rooms of the previous home of Sir John Everett Millais, which later (from 1937) was used by dance photographer Gordon Anthony and subsequently Francis Bacon. Hoppé also made portraits of the street types of London: he photographed English cleaners, maids, and street vendors both in his studio and on the street. He continued this practice of capturing ordinary working men and women throughout his career as he traveled throughout the world.

Travel and landscape edit

By 1919, Hoppé had begun to travel the world in search of new subjects and landscapes. His journeys brought him to Africa, Germany, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, the United States, Cuba, Jamaica and the West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaya, India and Ceylon. The resulting photographs were published in a number of books.A book from his trip to Germany was published in 1930 by Ullstein Verlag under the title "Deutsche Arbeit - Bilder vom Wiederaufstieg Deutschlands."[2]

 
German work - Pictures of Germany's resurgence - Ullstein Verlag Berlin - 1930

Publications edit

  • Studies from the Russian Ballet. E. O. Hoppé and Auguste Bert. London: Fine Art Society, 1913.
  • New Camera Work by E. O. Hoppé. Introduction by John Galsworthy. London: Goupil Gallery, 1922.
  • The Book of Fair Women. New York: Knopf, 1922 and London: Jonathan Cape, 1922.
  • Taken From Life. John Davys Beresford, with seven photogravure plates by E. O. Hoppé. London: W. Collins Sons & Co., Ltd., 1922.
  • Gods of Modern Grub Street: Impressions of Contemporary Authors. Arthur St. John Adcock, with 32 portraits by E. O. Hoppé. London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., 1923.
  • In Gipsy Camp and Royal Palace: Wanderings in Rumania. Written and illustrated by E. O. Hoppé, preface by the Queen of Rumania. London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1924.
  • To Rome on a Sunbeam: With Camera Studies by E. O. Hoppé. Wolverhampton: Sunbeam Motor Car Company Ltd., 1924.
  • A Collection of Photographic Masterpieces by E. O. Hoppé. Exhibition Catalogue. Tokyo: Tokyo Asahi Shimbun Hakkojo, 1925.
  • London Types: Taken from Life. E. O. Hoppé. Text by W. Pett Ridge. London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1926.
  • Forty London Statues and Public Monuments. Tancred Borenius, with special photographs by E. O. Hoppé. London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1926.
  • Fire Under the Andes: A Group of North American Portraits. Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, photographs by E. O. Hoppé. New York: Knopf, 1927.
  • Romantic America: Picturesque United States. E. O. Hoppé. New York: B. Westermann Co., Inc., 1927. And Das Romantische Amerika. Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth Verlag AG, 1927.
  • The Glory that was Grub Street: Impressions of Contemporary Authors. Text by Arthur St. John Adcock, with 32 portraits by E. O. Hoppé. London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co., 1928.
  • The Story of the Gipsies. Konrad Bercovici, with 8 plates by E. O. Hoppé. London: Cape, 1929.
  • Deutsche Arbeit ("German Work"). E. O. Hoppé. Introduction by Bruno H. Burgel. Berlin: Ullstein, 1930.
  • The Fifth Continent. E. O. Hoppé. London: Simpkin Marshall Ltd., 1931.
  • Romantik der Kleinstadt ("Romantic Towns"). E. O. Hoppé. Munich: Verlag F. Bruckmann, 1932.
  • Unterwegs ("In Passing"). E. O. Hoppé. Berlin: Ernst Pollak Verlag, 1932.
  • London. E. O. Hoppé. London: Medici Society (Picture Guide Series), 1932.
  • The Face of Mother India. Katherine Mayo. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1935.
  • The Image of London. E. O. Hoppé. London: Chatto & Windus, 1935.
  • A Camera on Unknown London: Sixty Photographs and Descriptive Notes of Curiosities of London to be Seen Today. E. O. Hoppé. London: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1936.
  • The London of George VI. by E. O. Hoppé. London: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1937.
  • Country Days. Text taken from A.G. Street's BBC Broadcasts, with 8 photographs by E. O. Hoppé. London: Faber, 1940.
  • Hundred Thousand Exposures: The Success of a Photographer. E. O. Hoppé. Introduction by Cecil Beaton. London and New York: Focal Press, 1945.
  • Rural London in Pictures. E. O. Hoppé. London: Odhams Press Ltd., 1951.
  • Blaue Berge von Jamaica ("Blue Mountains of Jamaica"). Karl-Heinz Jaeckel. Berlin: Safari Verlag, 1956.
  • Pirates, Buccaneers and Gentlemen Adventurers. E. O. Hoppé. New Jersey: Barnes and London: Yoseloff, 1972.
  • Camera Portraits by E. O. Hoppé, 1878-1972. Terence Pepper. Catalogue for an exhibition organized by the National Portrait Gallery, London. London: The National Portrait Gallery, 1978.
  • Cities and Industry : Camera Pictures by E. O. Hoppé. Edited by Val Williams and Terence Pepper, with essay by Ian Jeffrey. York: Impressions Gallery, 1978.
  • Hoppé's London. Mark Haworth-Booth. London: Guiding Light, 2006.
  • E. O. Hoppé's Amerika: Modernist Photographs from the 1920s. Phillip Prodger. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2007.
  • E. O. Hoppé's Australia. Edited by Graham Howe, with essays by Erika Esau and Graham Howe. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2007.
  • E. O. Hoppé's Santiniketan: Photographs from 1929. With essays by Pratapaditya Pal and Graham Howe. Mumbai: the Marg Foundation and Curatorial Assistance, Inc., 2010.
  • E. O. Hoppé's Bombay: Photographs from 1929. With essays by Pratapaditya Pal and Graham Howe. Mumbai: the Marg Foundation and Curatorial Assistance, Inc., 2010.
  • Hoppé Portraits: Society, Studio and Street. Phillip Prodger and Terence Pepper. London: National Portrait Gallery, 2011.
  • One Hundred Photographs: E. O. Hoppé and the Ballets Russes. Essays by John Bowlt, Graham Howe and Oleg Minin. Moscow: Art of the XXI Century, (Iskusstvo-XXI), 2012.
  • E. O. Hoppé's Indian Subcontinent of the Cusp of Change. Mumbai: Marg Publishing, 2013.
  • E. O. Hoppé: The German Work, 1925-1938. Phillip Prodger. Göttingen: Steidl Verlag, 2015.
  • E. O. Hoppé: Photographs of Greater Romania, 1923. Adrian Silvan Ionescu, Graham Howe, Marika Lundeberg and Michelle Dragoo. Pasadena, California: Curatorial Books, 2019.

Exhibitions edit

  • International Exhibition of Photography, Dresden, 1909
  • Royal Photographic Society, London, 1910
  • Modern Camera Portraits by E.O. Hoppé, Goupil Gallery, London, 1913
  • Studies from the Russian Ballet, Ryder Gallery, Conduit Street, London, 1914
  • Wanamaker's Gallery, New York, 1921
  • New Camera Work by E.O. Hoppé, Goupil Gallery, London, 1922
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, 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 Limited, 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
  • Camera Portraits by E.O.Hoppe, National Portrait Gallery, London, 1978
  • Cities and Industry : Camera Pictures by E.O. Hoppé, Impressions Gallery, York, 1978
  • London, Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, 2006
  • Amerika, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, 2007
  • Australia, Customs House, Sydney, 2007
  • Discoveries, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, 2010[3]
  • Hoppé Portraits: Society, Studio & Street, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2011[4]

Collections edit

Galleries edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Jay, Bill. (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 August 2007. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
  2. ^ Auktionshaus Lempertz.com/de - Katalog Auktion - Emil Otto Hoppe
  3. ^ . The New Yorker. 9 August 2010. Archived from the original on 26 April 2011. Retrieved 4 August 2010 – via Bruce Silverstein Gallery.
  4. ^ Cumming, Laura (13 February 2011). "EO Hoppé – Review: National Portrait Gallery, London". The Observer. Retrieved 2 October 2021.

External links edit

 
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Emil Otto Hoppe 14 April 1878 9 December 1972 was a German born British portrait travel and topographic photographer active between 1907 and 1945 Born to a wealthy family in Munich he moved to London in 1900 to train as a financier but took up photography and rapidly achieved great success Hoppe in 1972He was the only son of a prominent banker and was educated in the finest schools of Munich Paris and Vienna Upon leaving school he served apprenticeships in German banks for ten years before accepting a position with the Shanghai Banking Corporation He never arrived in China The first leg of his journey took him to England where he met an old school friend Hoppe married his old school friend s sister Marion Bliersbach and stayed in London While working for the Deutsche Bank he became increasingly enamored with photography and in 1907 jettisoned his commercial career and opened a portrait studio According to Bill Jay Within a few years E O Hoppe was the undisputed leader of pictorial portraiture in Europe To say that someone has a household name has become a cliche yet in Hoppe s case the phrase is apt Rarely in the history of the medium has a photographer been so famous in his own lifetime among the general public He was as famous as his sitters It is difficult to think of a prominent name in the fields of politics art literature and the theatre who did not pose for his camera 1 Although Hoppe was one of the most important photographic artists of his era and highly celebrated in his time in 1954 at the age of 76 he sold his body of photographic work to a commercial London picture archive the Mansell Collection In the collection the work was filed by subject in with millions of other stock pictures and no longer accessible by author Almost all of Hoppe s photographic work that which gained him the reputation as Britain s most influential international photographer between 1907 and 1939 was accidentally obscured from photo historians and from photo history itself It remained in the collection for over thirty years after Hoppe s death and was not fully accessible to the public until the collection closed down and was acquired by new owners in the United States In 1994 photographic art curator Graham Howe retrieved Hoppe s photographic work from the picture library and rejoined it with the Hoppe family archive of photographs and biographical documents This was the first time since 1954 that the complete E O Hoppe Collection was gathered together Many years were spent in cataloguing conservation and research of the recovered work Contents 1 Work 1 1 Portraits and typologies 1 2 Travel and landscape 2 Publications 3 Exhibitions 4 Collections 4 1 Galleries 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksWork editPortraits and typologies edit nbsp Blue plaque outside the house at 7 Cromwell Place Kensington London where Hoppe once lived from 1913In his life Hoppe s reputation attracted many important British and North American figures in politics literature and the arts In the era before the first World War Hoppe photographed many leading literary subjects and figures from the art world such as Henry James Rudyard Kipling John Masefield Leon Bakst Anna Pavlova Tamara Karsavina and other dancers of the Ballets Russes Violet Hunt Richard Strauss Jacob Epstein and William Nicholson some of whom were included in his 1913 exhibition In the early 1920s he was invited to photograph Queen Mary King George and members of the royal family Other subjects of the 1920s included Albert Einstein Benito Mussolini Robert Frost Aldous Huxley George Bernard Shaw and A A Milne In the 1930s Hoppe photographed a number of dancers at the Vic Wells company including Margot Fonteyn Ninette de Valois Hermione Darnborough and Beatrice Appleyard In 1925 he contributed female nude portraits to Peter Landow s book Natur und Kultur Das Weib Nature and Culture Woman Working from a studio first in London s Baron s Court at 10 Margravine Gardens 1907 10 he later moved in 1911 to a Baker Street studio In 1913 he took on a lease of 7 Cromwell Place occupying all thirty three rooms of the previous home of Sir John Everett Millais which later from 1937 was used by dance photographer Gordon Anthony and subsequently Francis Bacon Hoppe also made portraits of the street types of London he photographed English cleaners maids and street vendors both in his studio and on the street He continued this practice of capturing ordinary working men and women throughout his career as he traveled throughout the world Travel and landscape edit By 1919 Hoppe had begun to travel the world in search of new subjects and landscapes His journeys brought him to Africa Germany Poland Romania Czechoslovakia the United States Cuba Jamaica and the West Indies Australia New Zealand Japan Indonesia Singapore Malaya India and Ceylon The resulting photographs were published in a number of books A book from his trip to Germany was published in 1930 by Ullstein Verlag under the title Deutsche Arbeit Bilder vom Wiederaufstieg Deutschlands 2 nbsp German work Pictures of Germany s resurgence Ullstein Verlag Berlin 1930Publications editStudies from the Russian Ballet E O Hoppe and Auguste Bert London Fine Art Society 1913 New Camera Work by E O Hoppe Introduction by John Galsworthy London Goupil Gallery 1922 The Book of Fair Women New York Knopf 1922 and London Jonathan Cape 1922 Taken From Life John Davys Beresford with seven photogravure plates by E O Hoppe London W Collins Sons amp Co Ltd 1922 Gods of Modern Grub Street Impressions of Contemporary Authors Arthur St John Adcock with 32 portraits by E O Hoppe London Sampson Low Marston and Co 1923 In Gipsy Camp and Royal Palace Wanderings in Rumania Written and illustrated by E O Hoppe preface by the Queen of Rumania London Methuen and Co Ltd 1924 To Rome on a Sunbeam With Camera Studies by E O Hoppe Wolverhampton Sunbeam Motor Car Company Ltd 1924 A Collection of Photographic Masterpieces by E O Hoppe Exhibition Catalogue Tokyo Tokyo Asahi Shimbun Hakkojo 1925 London Types Taken from Life E O Hoppe Text by W Pett Ridge London Methuen and Co Ltd 1926 Forty London Statues and Public Monuments Tancred Borenius with special photographs by E O Hoppe London Methuen amp Co Ltd 1926 Fire Under the Andes A Group of North American Portraits Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant photographs by E O Hoppe New York Knopf 1927 Romantic America Picturesque United States E O Hoppe New York B Westermann Co Inc 1927 And Das Romantische Amerika Berlin Ernst Wasmuth Verlag AG 1927 The Glory that was Grub Street Impressions of Contemporary Authors Text by Arthur St John Adcock with 32 portraits by E O Hoppe London Sampson Low Marston amp Co 1928 The Story of the Gipsies Konrad Bercovici with 8 plates by E O Hoppe London Cape 1929 Deutsche Arbeit German Work E O Hoppe Introduction by Bruno H Burgel Berlin Ullstein 1930 The Fifth Continent E O Hoppe London Simpkin Marshall Ltd 1931 Romantik der Kleinstadt Romantic Towns E O Hoppe Munich Verlag F Bruckmann 1932 Unterwegs In Passing E O Hoppe Berlin Ernst Pollak Verlag 1932 London E O Hoppe London Medici Society Picture Guide Series 1932 The Face of Mother India Katherine Mayo London Hamish Hamilton 1935 The Image of London E O Hoppe London Chatto amp Windus 1935 A Camera on Unknown London Sixty Photographs and Descriptive Notes of Curiosities of London to be Seen Today E O Hoppe London J M Dent and Sons Ltd 1936 The London of George VI by E O Hoppe London J M Dent and Sons Ltd 1937 Country Days Text taken from A G Street s BBC Broadcasts with 8 photographs by E O Hoppe London Faber 1940 Hundred Thousand Exposures The Success of a Photographer E O Hoppe Introduction by Cecil Beaton London and New York Focal Press 1945 Rural London in Pictures E O Hoppe London Odhams Press Ltd 1951 Blaue Berge von Jamaica Blue Mountains of Jamaica Karl Heinz Jaeckel Berlin Safari Verlag 1956 Pirates Buccaneers and Gentlemen Adventurers E O Hoppe New Jersey Barnes and London Yoseloff 1972 Camera Portraits by E O Hoppe 1878 1972 Terence Pepper Catalogue for an exhibition organized by the National Portrait Gallery London London The National Portrait Gallery 1978 Cities and Industry Camera Pictures by E O Hoppe Edited by Val Williams and Terence Pepper with essay by Ian Jeffrey York Impressions Gallery 1978 Hoppe s London Mark Haworth Booth London Guiding Light 2006 E O Hoppe s Amerika Modernist Photographs from the 1920s Phillip Prodger New York W W Norton amp Co 2007 E O Hoppe s Australia Edited by Graham Howe with essays by Erika Esau and Graham Howe New York W W Norton amp Co 2007 E O Hoppe s Santiniketan Photographs from 1929 With essays by Pratapaditya Pal and Graham Howe Mumbai the Marg Foundation and Curatorial Assistance Inc 2010 E O Hoppe s Bombay Photographs from 1929 With essays by Pratapaditya Pal and Graham Howe Mumbai the Marg Foundation and Curatorial Assistance Inc 2010 Hoppe Portraits Society Studio and Street Phillip Prodger and Terence Pepper London National Portrait Gallery 2011 One Hundred Photographs E O Hoppe and the Ballets Russes Essays by John Bowlt Graham Howe and Oleg Minin Moscow Art of the XXI Century Iskusstvo XXI 2012 E O Hoppe s Indian Subcontinent of the Cusp of Change Mumbai Marg Publishing 2013 E O Hoppe The German Work 1925 1938 Phillip Prodger Gottingen Steidl Verlag 2015 E O Hoppe Photographs of Greater Romania 1923 Adrian Silvan Ionescu Graham Howe Marika Lundeberg and Michelle Dragoo Pasadena California Curatorial Books 2019 Exhibitions editInternational Exhibition of Photography Dresden 1909 Royal Photographic Society London 1910 Modern Camera Portraits by E O Hoppe Goupil Gallery London 1913 Studies from the Russian Ballet Ryder Gallery Conduit Street London 1914 Wanamaker s Gallery New York 1921 New Camera Work by E O Hoppe Goupil Gallery London 1922 Victoria and Albert Museum Theatre Exhibition 1922 Photographic Masterpieces by E O Hoppe staged by Asahi Shimbun Tokyo and Osaka 1925 Dover Gallery London 1927 79 Camera Pictures David Jones Limited 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 Camera Portraits by E O Hoppe National Portrait Gallery London 1978 Cities and Industry Camera Pictures by E O Hoppe Impressions Gallery York 1978 London Michael Hoppen Gallery London 2006 Amerika Bruce Silverstein Gallery New York 2007 Australia Customs House Sydney 2007 Discoveries Bruce Silverstein Gallery New York 2010 3 Hoppe Portraits Society Studio amp Street National Portrait Gallery London 2011 4 Collections editNational Portrait Gallery London Victoria and Albert Museum London Bibliotheque 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 edit Craig Krull Gallery Los Angeles Bruce Silverstein Gallery New York Josef Lebovic Gallery SydneySee also editModernismReferences edit Jay Bill Emil Otto Hoppe a Personal Snapshot PDF Archived from the original PDF on 15 August 2007 Retrieved 28 September 2021 Auktionshaus Lempertz com de Katalog Auktion Emil Otto Hoppe Discoveries The New Yorker 9 August 2010 Archived from the original on 26 April 2011 Retrieved 4 August 2010 via Bruce Silverstein Gallery Cumming Laura 13 February 2011 EO Hoppe Review National Portrait Gallery London The Observer Retrieved 2 October 2021 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to E O Hoppe Official E O Hoppe website National Portrait Gallery s Hoppe Collection London Hoppe publications database Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title E O Hoppe amp oldid 1175217281, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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