Erik Hoppe 1896 - 1968, oil on canvas.
Motive: Søndermarken 1949. Title: "Midday light".
Dimensions without frame: 65 x 76.
Incl. Frame D 3 W 87 H 77 cm
Exhibited: Birchs kunsthandel 24/2 - 11/3 1951. Cat. No. 4.
Reviewed by Pola Gauguin (catalogue foreword).
Separate exhibition with "Reality and fable".
Prov. private collection.
Erik Hoppe (1896–1968) was a Danish painter who is remembered for his paintings from the Copenhagen area, especially those with young ladies in the park at Valby.
Hoppe also mastered the effects of light and color. His earlier work is typified by greens and dull shades but later he produced compositions benefitting from bright sunlight. His style reflects the peculiarly Danish form of modernism, initially based on the sombre everyday-realism of around 1930.[1] Affinities with the work of Edvard Weie and Harald Giersing...
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Mid-20th Century Danish Modern Paintings