Draft:Peter Hoppe

Peter Hoppe (27 November 1938 – 3 March 2010) was one of the important German painters after 1945 in Germany.

His work included canvas painting, panel painting, mural painting also sculpture , printmaker and theatre designer. He studied at Fine and Applied Arts Academy at Berlin-Weissensee with the professors Ernst Rudolf Vogenauer, Fritz Dähn, Arno Mohr and Walter Womacka.

Mythology
Many series of the painter devoted to the greek mythology, like Nike, Icarus , Orpheus , Danaë , Dionysus & Bacchus, Pan and the Judgment of Paris with over 200 large formats of drawings, lithographs, etchings and painted ceramic plates. Later he extended his work themes with the motive of Cassandra.

Religion
With the oil painting Pietà (2001), Hoppe painted a significant Christian art motif known as the Pietà, depicting the Virgin Mary cradling the lifeless body of Jesus Christ after it was taken down from the cross.

Mural Painting
Hoppes finished his first practice painting ("Polytechnik"), during his thesis 1967. The most extensive work "Premnitzer Bilder" was done at the industrial building of the Chemiefaserwerk Premnitz, 1973. The drawing included four walls. 1974 the artist used industrial enamel for the external wall of the sports center in Berlin. The same material he used later for different outdoor murals.

While most of these work is not existing anymore, two recent paintings are still accessible: Morning - Day - Evening - Dream, Freizeitforum Marzahn, Berlin. In the summer of 1993, the artist completed his final mural in a church located in Brandenburg, Germany. This artwork, executed as a secco painting on lime plaster, encompasses an area of approximately 25 square meters.

Still Life
The artist created a series of still life works, like "Flowers" (12 paintings) (2005), which focuses on the depiction of various floral arrangements.

The "Lobsters" series (also known as "Hummerbilder") began in 1979 at Hoppe's countryside studio, where the artist found inspiration in small crabs from the Parchsteiner See, which later evolved into the primary subjects of his lobster-themed paintings and drawings on canvas and paper.

Landscape painting
Starting in 1971, Hoppe began to paint scenes of Berlin. With „Dimitroff - Ecke Schönhauser“, „S-Bahnhof Prenzlauer Alle“ and „Helmholtzplatz“ he started realistic paintings in his earlier days. With „Hallenser Stadtlandschaft“ he painted the modern architecture of the GDR.

Consecutive study travels to Macedonia (1975), Vietnam, Cuba (1984), France (1991) and Germany (1993). The works created here differ significantly from the previously produced pieces. In a more expansive style of presentation and the change to mainly paper drawings (Gouache). „Many things were left behind, and he focused only on what was essential to him.“

Portraits
Portraits of other artists like: Siegfried Krepp

Rewards
At the III. Trienale of realistic painting (1979) Hoppe received one of the main prices for his works: „”, „" and „".

Exhibitions

 * III. Triennale of realistic painting, 1976, Sofia, Bulgaria
 * "Das Urteil des Paris in der bildenden Kunst der DDR", 1986, Schlossmuseum Gotha, Germany
 * "Das Urteil des Paris in der bildenden Kunst der DDR", 1987, Stendal, Germany
 * Exhibition of the Siegfried Seiz collection, September 1999, Kulturhaus Potsdam, Altes Rathaus, Germany
 * "Atelier 2008", 2008, GBM-Galerie, Germany
 * Figuren · Stillleben · Landschaften, May 2011, HELIOS-Klinikum, Berlin-Buch, Germany
 * "Weltenwechsel: Sammlung Siegfried Seiz; figürliche Malerei aus dem letzten Jahrzehnt der DDR und heute", 2014, dkw. Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus, Germany

Theatre Designs

 * „Gewonnene Liebesmüh„, Costumes and Set Design, Karl-Marx-Stadt Theater, 1966/67
 * „Le Demoiselle de la nuit“, Costumes and Set Design, Karl-Marx-Stadt Theater, 1967
 * "EINAKTER" by Anton Chekhov (1965), THEATER IM III. STOCK, Volksbühne Berlin
 * GDR-Premiere of the ballett by Igor Stravinsky „Pulcinella" (1970), Karl-Marx-Stadt
 * The Swan of Tuonela, 1970, Karl-Marx-Stadt
 * Peer Gynt, 1991, Chemnitz, Germany
 * The Firebird (Feuervogel) ballett by Igor Stravinsky, 1992, Luxor-Palast, Chemnitz, Germany

Construction-bound arts

 * Polytechnik, 12. OS Lichtenberg, Berlin, 1966/67
 * Premnitzer Bilder, Chemiefaserwerk Premnitz, 1972/73
 * Enamel-Painting (together with Herbert Sandberg), Sportforum Hohenschönhausen, 1974
 * The human being in the circle of nature (Der Mensch im Kreislauf der Natur), mosaic, Helene-Weigel-Platz, Berlin, 1979/80
 * Morning - Day - Evening - Dream (DER MORGEN - DER TAG - DER ABEND - DER TRAUM), Freizeitforum Marzahn, Berlin, 1991

Literature

 * Catalog: Berliner Atelier 1978 Fünfzehn Maler und Grafiker stellen aus. (Berlin Studio. Fifteen painters and graphic artists exhibit) Exhibition Center at the Fernsehturm, 26. July to 20. August 1978
 * Catalog: Peter Hoppe Malerei by Gisold Lammel, Exhibition at Galerie im Turm, Berlin 1984
 * Catalog: Peter Hoppe Malerei, Grafik, Handzeichnungen by Dr. Heinz Schmidt, Galerie Unter den Linden, Berlin 1985
 * Catalog: Das faunische Leben by Dr. Peter Arlt, Galerie im Cranachhaus, Weimar 1993
 * Exhibition Atelier 2008 - Laudatio by Dr. Peter Arlt: Kontinuität in der Ambivalenz, shortened in: ICARUS, Issue 1/2009