Ernest Hopf

Ernest Hopf (1910 - 1999) was a German-American artist known for his silk screen prints.

Hopf was born February 2, 1910^[1] in Germany.^[2]

In 1935, he married the writer Alice Lightner Hopf^[2] with whom he had one child.^[3] During the 1930s Hopf was an artist with the Works Progress Administration (WPA).^[4]

In 1941 Hopf contributed an illustration the Committee for Defense of Public Education publication Winter Soldiers: The Story of a Conspiracy Against the Schools. Profits from the publication were given to the legal defense fund for the Rapp-Coudert Committee victims.^[5][6] Hopf provided one of the six limited-edition prints for the Silk Screen Group's 1943 calendar.^[7]

Hopf's work was included in the 1940 MoMA exhibition American Color Prints Under $10.^[8] He was also included in the 1944 Dallas Museum of Art exhibition of the National Serigraph Society.^[9]

Hopf died on July 17, 1999.^[1]

Hopf's work is in the National Gallery of Art,^[10] the National Gallery of Victoria,^[1] the Tacoma Art Museum^[4] and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,^[11]