Marta Hoepffner

Marta Hoepffner (1912–2000) was a German artist and photographer. She is known for her abstract and experimental photography.^[1]

Marta Hoepffner
Born	(1912-01-04)4 January 1912 Pirmasens, Germany
Died	3 April 2000(2000-04-03) (aged 88) Lindenberg im Allgäu, Germany
Known for	Photography

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]