| Marta Hoepffner | |
| Birth Date: | 4 January 1912 |
| Birth Place: | Pirmasens, Germany |
| Death Place: | Lindenberg im Allgäu, Germany |
| Field: | Photography |
Marta Hoepffner (1912–2000) was a German artist and photographer. She is known for her abstract and experimental photography.[1]
Hoepffner was born on 4 January 1912 in Pirmasens.[2]
She studied at the Städelschule under Willi Baumeister and participated at the New Frankfurt-project.[3] She graduated in 1933. Remaining in Germany during World War II, Hoepffner worked as an illustrator for the magazine Das Illustrierte Blatt.[1]
After the war Hoepffner began creating color photograms.[1] Hoepffner taught at a photography school in Hofheim am Taunus along with her partner and fellow photographer, Irm Schoeffers, and her sister sister, Madeleine Hoepffner.[1]
Hoepffner died on 3 April 2000 in Lindenberg im Allgäu.[2]
Her work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[4] the National Gallery of Art,[5] and the Städel Museum.[6]
Hoepffner's work was included in the 2021 exhibition Women in Abstraction at the Centre Pompidou.[7]