Evelyn Hofer
* 1922 Marburg (an der Lahn), Germany
† 2009 Mexico City
1942
Movement to Mexico
1947
The photographer finally settles in New York
Education
All her photographic education took place during her short stay in Switzerland: She became an apprentice at the Studio Bettina in Zurich and studied under Robert Spreng in Basel. Additionally, she took private classes with Professor Hans Finsler at the Zurich School of Photography. But it was New York where her career as a freelance photographer began. She obtained her first commissions in the field of fashion photography for Harper's Bazaar through the painter Richard Lindner and Alexey Brodovitch in the early '50s.
Since the end of the '50s, she has published a series of books on different cities and countries together with various authors:
1959 The Stones of Florence with Mary McCarthy
1962 London Perceived with V.S. Pritchett
1964 The Presence of Spain with James Morris
1965 New York Proclaimed mit V. S. Pritchett
1967 The Evidence of Washington mit William Walton
1967 Dublin, A Portrait. mit V. S. Pritchett
1989 Emerson in Italy with Evelyn Barish
She has also produced many photographic essays and reportages for the magazines London Sunday Times, Vogue, Vanity Fair.
Selected exhibitions
2015
Human Nature - Art Collection Deutsche Börse, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf
2014
Second Sight. The David Kronn Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2012
Seduced by Art. Photography Past and Present, The National Gallery, London
Play it again, Sam, Galerie Bochum
Dublin and Other Portraits, Gallery of Photography, Dublin
1977
Photographs, Witkin Gallery, New York
1982
Photographs, Black & White and Colour, Witkin Gallery, New York
1987
Art Circles: Portrait Photographs from ArtNews 1905-1986, International Center of Photography, New York
FRIDA!, Mexican Museum, San Francisco
1988
Emerson in Italy, Witkin Gallery, New York
1989
Water, Pfizer Corporation, New York
1991/92
The People of Soglio, Witkin Gallery, New York
1994
Apollo in Silver, College of Design, Iowa State University Ames, Iowa
Evelyn Hofer: Photographs, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne
2001
Evelyn Hofer . Fotografien seit 1955, Galerie m, Bochum
2001/02
La natura della natura morte, Galeria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna
2002
Overnight to Many Cities, The Photographer's Gallery, London
Visio – Sehen mit allen Sinnen, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
2003
Menschenbilder, Museum Bochum
2004
Portrait, Erfurter Kunstverein, Erfurt
Evelyn Hofer: Fotografien seit 1950, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
2005
Stillleben – Positionen in der Gegenwartskunst, Kunstkreis Cloppenburg e.V., Kardinal-von-Galen-Haus, Cloppenburg
Braut/Moden/Schau, Altonaer Museum, Hamburg
Des choses simples, Théâtre de la Photographie et de l'Image, Nizza
Evelyn Hofer – Ewigkeit im Augenblick, c/o Berlin
2006
Evelyn Hofer, Fundación Centro Ordóñez-Falcón de Fotografia, San Sebastian
Retrospectif, Fotomuseum Den Haag
2008
Anna, Emma und all die anderen, Kunstverein Ulm
Von Kunst und Politik. Fotografie der Sammlung des deutschen Bundestages, Marie-Elisabeth- Lüders-Haus, Berlin
2010
Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Evelyn Hofer, Helen Levitt, Lilo Raymond, New York Public Library, USA
still. Claus Goedicke, Evelyn Hofer and Laura Letinsky, Galerie m Bochum, Germany
Weltsichten, Kubus, Situtaion Kunst, Bochum, Katalog
2011
Weltsichten, Kunsthalle zu Kiel
Street Life and Home Stories. Fotografien aus der Sammlung Goetz, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
Selected works in public and private collections
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
The Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston
Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico
D. F . Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley
Middlebury College, Middlebury
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans
David Rockefeller, Jr.
McKinsey & Company
Nynex Corporation
Prudential Insurance Company