Ernest Hopf

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Ernest J. Hopf
Born(1910-02-02)February 2, 1910
DiedJuly 17, 1999(1999-07-17) (aged 89)
NationalityGerman born American
Known forprintmaker
Spouse(s)Alice Lightner Hopf

Ernest Hopf (1910 - 1999) was a German-American artist known for his silk screen prints.

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]

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References

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