Eva Hoppach

EVA HOPPACH

Eva Hoppach was born as Marga Gietz. She spent her childhood in Seefeld on the Jade Bay. In 1954, she moved to Bremen, where she completed an apprenticeship as a photo laboratory technician. In 1964, she married the inland waterway captain Manfred Everling. In 1966, their son Marcel Everling, who later also became an artist, was born. From 1973–1977, she was a master student of the Bremen painter Willi Vogel (1909–1987) and adopted the artist name "Eva". During this time, she used a studio in a log cabin in the Giehlermoor . After graduating in 1977, she worked as a freelance painter.

In 1978, she opened her new studio in Bremen-Blumenthal. In 1985, she moved to Worpswede .

In 1989, the painter married the graduate engineer Klaus Hoppach for the second time, and she adopted his name.

The artist undertook numerous study trips abroad, including to Paris, Italy, Greece, Spain, the Canary Islands and Balearic Islands, Norway and Austria, sometimes together with her teacher Willi Vogel .

In 1991, she organized the major memorial exhibition for Willi Vogel at Haus Blomendal in Bremen-Blumenthal.

Hoppach died on December 22, 2014 in Wilstedt and was buried in the Worpswede cemetery.

WORKS

Eva Hoppach mainly created works in oil, as well as watercolors, red chalk, pastels, gouaches , drawings and mixed media, in which she also used experimental techniques with spatulas, paint rollers and paint sticks. Her style seems impressionistic, the world of emotions conveyed in it is romantic.

Eva Hoppach: "Feelings", 1992.

Many of her works have evocative titles. Until her marriage to Klaus Hoppach, she signed her work with the artist name "Eva" (e.g. "Above the Clouds", 1989), afterwards with "Eva Hoppach" (e.g. "Feelings", 1992, or "Freaked Out", 2004). Popular motifs include landscapes in the changing seasons and times of day, with particular emphasis on the interplay of light and color, as well as flowers, fantasies, nudes, portraits, ships and still lifes.

Nature in its diversity served as a medium of inspiration for Hoppach. Impressions, moods and feelings were directly translated into painting. [ Thus, numerous works were created outdoors in nature, especially landscape motifs around the Teufelsmoor . With the closeness to nature of her paintings, Eva Hoppach connected with the artistic origins of the old painters of the Worpswede artists' colony .]

Together with her teacher Willi Vogel (1909–1987), Eva Hoppach designed the back wall of the Burgwall-Stadion 's grandstand in Bremen-Blumenthal with 24 large-format individual images, including regionally typical landscape and floral motifs.

Eva Hoppach's artistic work received considerable media attention (including in the programs "ttt - title, thesis, temperament" 1988, "Buten un Binnen" 1981). Her works are in public and private collections at home and abroad (including in the State Art Collections Dresden, the collection of the Great Art Exhibition Worpswede and the collection of Helmut and Loki Schmidt) as well as in her studio in Worpswede .