Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur April 6 – July 30, 2017

Curated by Urs Stahel, Founder and former Director of Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.

In the twenties and thirties, German-born, British photographer E.O. Hoppé set out to depict the romance of global industrial might. Traveling throughout Germa­ny, Britain, the United States, India, and Australia, among other countries, he photographed the brave new technological landscape of industry, seeing its gargantuan machines as both technology and art. This exhibition presents for the first time Hoppé’s iconic industrial images of the modern era, a subject he approached with formal idealism only to discover a darker landscape within: the preparation of machines and weapons that were part of the technology used in the Second World War.

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E. O. Hoppé’s Amerika: The First Great American Road Trip presents never-before-seen masterworks recently uncovered from the E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection archive, managed by Curatorial Assistance in Old Town Pasadena. This visionary work was the first to survey America at a unique time in its history, anticipating the road trips of other photographers such as Edward Weston and Walker Evans in the late 1930s, and Robert Frank in the mid-1950s.

Follow Hoppé’s transcontinental journey from urban New York to the “steel city” of Pittsburgh, Detroit’s burgeoning industrial factories to Florida’s palms, remnants of the antebellum South to the pueblos of Arizona and New Mexico, and Yosemite’s majesty to Hollywood’s allure. Hoppé’s insightful portrait of the United States is a revelation of diversity that ruminates on the country’s past, present, and future.

The exhibition will feature a selection of vintage prints, modern prints from original negatives, and related ephemera, providing a rare glimpse into the archive of this preeminent German-born British Photo-Modernist.

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In a world preview, FONDAZIONE MAST (Arts, Experience, Technology) presents 200 photographs taken taken between 1912 and 1937 in industrial contexts from various countries all over the world by Emil Otto Hoppé (1878-1972), one of the most important photographers of the modern era, eclectic artist and famous portraitist to whom the London National Portrait Gallery dedicated a solo exhibition in 2011.

Like his contemporaries Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Walker Evans, August Sander, and Edward Weston, Hoppé was one of the most important photographers of his era, also famous for his landscape and travel images. In the twenties and thirties, after having consolidated his reputation as a topographic and portrait photographer depicting famous European artists, scientists and politicians like George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, George V, Vita Sackville-West, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, and Albert Einstein, E. O. Hoppé set off on his travels to capture the romance and grandeur of industrial sites around the world. During his explorations – in Germany, Great Britain, the United States, India, Australia, New Zealand and other countries – he photographed the futuristic industrial landscape, seeing its gargantuan machinery as both technology and art. Hoppé was acutely aware of how contemporary industrial technology was heralding the world into a new era where the very nature of work and production would profoundly change.

Emil Otto Hoppé: Unveiling a secret presents for the first time his iconic images of the second industrial revolution and brings Hoppé’s work to the attention of the public. This work had remained hidden for a long time in the London photographic archives which had purchased fifty years of works from the artist himself at the end of his long and prestigious career. Alongside Hoppé’s industrial photography on show, in the area dedicated to “side events”, MAST will exhibit the rich variety of subject matter in the artist’s repertoire with a series of digital projections of other themes from celebrity portraits to nudes and from human typologies to landscapes.

The exhibition, curated by Urs Stahel, is organized by the Fondazione MAST, Bologna, in collaboration with the E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection / Curatorial Assistance, California.

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A landmark exhibition of 150 works by E.O. Hoppé opened at the National Portrait Gallery of London, drawing praise from the Guardian and the Independent, among others. The exhibition includes Hoppé’s strikingly modernist portraits of society figures and important personalities from the worlds of literature, politics and the arts, including George Bernard Shaw, Margot Fonteyn, Albert Einstein, Vita Sackville-West and members of the royal family.

These studio portraits are being shown alongside Hoppé’s fascinating photojournalist studies of everyday British people ranging from street musicians and circus performers to bus drivers and postmen, which capture the intimacies of day-to-day life between the wars.

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