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- 1. Edward Hopper 22 July 1882 – 15 May 1967
- 3. Studies •1900 - 1906 New York School of Art •In 1906/1907, 1909 and 1910 trips to Europe
- 6. Robert Henri
- 7. Bread and butter • Illustrator • Important source of income for the following 20 years • 1913 Armory Show
- 10. Josephine Hopper
- 11. The Mansard Roof 1923 Brooklyn Museum, New York City
- 12. Success as an artist • Became renowned during the Great Depression • 1933 – retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 13. Trips • 1941 - Drove with his car along the West coast of the USA • 1943 – 1st trip to Mexico
- 14. 1950 • Retrospective at the Whitney Museum • Honorary degree from the Art Institute of Chicago
- 16. 1960 • Clearly opposed abstract art • Exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum on Hartfort, Connecticut
- 17. 1962 • Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
- 18. 1964 • Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
- 19. Death 15th May 1967
- 20. Estate Whitney Museum received more than 3000 paintings, drawings, watercolours, graphics.
- 22. Theatre
- 23. A Solitary Figure in a Theater 1904 Oil on cardboard
- 24. New York Movie 1939
- 26. Landscapes
- 27. Road in Maine (1914)
- 29. Lighthouses
- 30. The Lighthouse at Two Lights 1929 Oil on canvas
- 31. Lighthouse Hill (1927) Oil on canvass
- 32. Cityscenes
- 33. Gas (1942)
- 38. Josephine
- 41. Light
- 43. Heritage Influence on film • Psycho (Hitchcock) • Casablanca (Michael Curtiz) • Blade runner (Ridley Scott) • The Million Dollar Hotel (Wim Wenders)
Editor's Notes
- Oil on canvass 1925-1930 Representative of American Realism Chronicler of American civilisation Considered to be the 1st real American artist, with solely American subjects
- His birthplace in Nyack, New York 2nd child of Garret Henry Hopper and Elizabeth Griffiths Smith Hopper The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000, now the Edward Hopper House Art Center serves as a nonprofit community cultural center featuring exhibitions, workshops, lectures, performances, and special events
- Hopper was a good student in grade school and showed talent in drawing at age five He readily absorbed his father's intellectual tendencies and love of French and Russian cultures He also demonstrated his mother's artistic heritage parents encouraged his art and kept him amply supplied with materials, instructional magazines, and illustrated books By his teens, he was working in pen-and-ink, charcoal, watercolor, and oil—drawing from nature as well as making political cartoons New York: - Illustration under Frank Vincent Dumond and Arthur Keller painting under William Merritt Chase, Kenneth Hayes Miller and Robert Henri, mentor of the Ashcan School modeled his style after Chase and French masters Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas Sketching from live models proved a challenge and a shock for the conservatively raised Hopper Robert Henri, taught life class. Henri encouraged his students to use their art to "make a stir in the world". "It isn't the subject that counts but what you feel about it" "Forget about art and paint pictures of what interests you in life." Europe: among others Paris London Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin In developing his self-image and individualistic philosophy of life, Hopper was influenced by the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. He later said, "I admire him greatly...I read him over and over again.“
- Worked mainly for C. C. Phillips & Co. (advertising agency) Did not consider it as part of his creative work from 1915 on he produced some etchings Could not make a living with painting until the age of 42
- 1st painting he sold $250 Thomas F. Vietor (textile manufacturer) 61 × 74 cm currently: Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh x-ray screening revealed that there is an early self-portrait beyond it
- Josephine Verstille Nivison Painting: Summertime (1943) Met in 1923 Married in 9. Juli 1924 Was painter herself, Hopper urged her to give up painting she became the model that mostly appeared in his paintings Responsible for his breakthrough; Put Hopper in contact with the Brooklyn Museum of Art Participated in an exhibition of the Brooklyn Museum of Art and sold „The Mansard Roof“ for about $100
- 1923: 1st solo exhibition; Frank Rehn`s gallery – worked with him until his death
- 1929: sold two oil paintings, 14 watercolours and 80 drawings for altogether $6,211 Won lots of prizes
- Retrospective also in Boston and Detroit
- Represented the USA together with 3 other painters at the Venice Biennale
- Whitney Museum ownes the worldwide biggest stock of artworks by Edward Hopper 1979: 3rd retrospective at the Whitney Museum Afterwards parts of Hoppers complete works were shown at exhibitions in Europe
- This topic could correspond to the role of the spectator that repeatedly appears in his works
- - This painting is the 1st of many that deal with the status of the spectator He will deal with this topic again and again for the rest of his life interpretations: world is stage and we are all actors, already known from Shakespeare new one: the fear that we had lost track on the plot of life time stands still within the painting can`t know what is to come
- Two light sources: screen and hall Metaphor: the film stands for life Figure stands aside, life is passing by, while she is lost in thought Characteristic of Hopper`s works: elaborated composition of light
- His last painting The long-awaited preformance finally takes place Hopper and his wife Josefine take a bow (adresses the audience as well as life itself)
- Waving hills, dunes, light houses as alter ego
- Lighthouses as alter ego, represents himself as solitary person Interpretation by Josephine Hopper
- Sometimes contain technical details Sunlit Empty streets, without any human life Nightscenes show views into single rooms with on or two persons leaves his paintings open for interpretation regarding relations, conversations and what comes next
- Gas station from the perspective of a car driver Dusk Several sources of light also documents solitude open to interpretation (e.g. struggle between wild nature and civilisation)
- One of the most popular paintings of the 20th century Hopper`s most famous painting although these three people sit together they dont talk to each other, are isolated their relation towards each other is open
- allegory Women embodies health, youth, strength, connected to summer
- Contrast natural/artificial light Lighthouse Hill Drug store
- Blade runner and Casablanca influenced by Nighthawks