Hoppé, a successful photographer

Hoppé-The study and the street is a photographic exhibition organized by the Fundación Mapfre (Madrid, Spain), which will be running until May 20, 2012.

The exhibition presents, for the first time in Madrid, the work of E.O. Hoppé (Munich, 1878-London, 1968). Based in Britain since 1902, the artist took his first photographs in 1907. He rapidly achieved great success and his work became the accurate reflection of the intellectual and artistic outburst in England during the first half of the twentieth century.

Hoppé was the prototype of a successful photographer, in line with contemporaries like Richard Avedon and Irving Penn. He was part of the cultural and artistic elite of the time and had access to politicians and writers. Even the most famous actors and actresses were willing to pose for him.

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 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, 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.

Date: until May 20.
Location: Fundación Mapfre. Sala Azca. Avenida General Perón, 40, 28020. Madrid. Spain.