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

Works from the Artist