Ernest Hopf
German-American artist
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Ernest Hopf (1910 - 1999) was a German-American artist known for his silk screen prints.
Ernest J. Hopf | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 2, 1910 |
| Died | July 17, 1999 (aged 89) |
| Known for | printmaker |
| Spouse | Alice Lightner Hopf |
Biography
Hopf was born February 2, 1910[1] in Germany.[2]
In 1935, he married the writer Alice Lightner Hopf[2] with whom he had one child.[3] During the 1930s Hopf was an artist with the Works Progress Administration (WPA).[4]
In 1941 Hopf contributed an illustration the Committee for Defense of Public Education publication Winter Soldiers: The Story of a Conspiracy Against the Schools. Profits from the publication were given to the legal defense fund for the Rapp-Coudert Committee victims.[5][6] Hopf provided one of the six limited-edition prints for the Silk Screen Group's 1943 calendar.[7]
Hopf's work was included in the 1940 MoMA exhibition American Color Prints Under $10.[8] He was also included in the 1944 Dallas Museum of Art exhibition of the National Serigraph Society.[9]
Hopf died on July 17, 1999.[1]
Hopf's work is in the National Gallery of Art,[10] the National Gallery of Victoria,[1] the Tacoma Art Museum[4] and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,[11]