Marta Hoepffner

{{short description|German artist and photographer}}

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| death_place = Lindenberg im Allgäu, Germany

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Marta Hoepffner (1912–2000) was a German artist and photographer. She is known for her abstract and experimental photography.{{cite web |title=Marta Hoepffner |url=https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/marta-hoepffner/ |website=AWARE Women artists / Femmes artistes |access-date=24 June 2024}}

Hoepffner was born on 4 January 1912 in Pirmasens.{{cite web |title=Martha Hoepffner |url=https://research.rkd.nl/nl/detail/https%3A%2f%2fdata.rkd.nl%2fartists%2f220914 |website=RKD Research |access-date=24 June 2024}}

She studied at the Städelschule under Willi Baumeister and participated at the New Frankfurt-project.{{cite web |last1=Kynoch |first1=Gabby |title=Marta Hoepffner - German Photographer |url=https://hundredheroines.org/historical-heroines/marta-hoepffner/ |website=Hundred Heroines |access-date=24 June 2024 |date=4 January 2022}} She graduated in 1933. Remaining in Germany during World War II, Hoepffner worked as an illustrator for the magazine Das Illustrierte Blatt.

After the war Hoepffner began creating color photograms. 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.

Hoepffner died on 3 April 2000 in Lindenberg im Allgäu.

Her work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,{{cite web |title=Marta Hoepffner {{!}} Hommage à Kandinsky |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/265473 |website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art |access-date=24 June 2024 |language=en}} the National Gallery of Art,{{cite web |title=The Plunge into the Deep |url=https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.23606.html |website=National Gallery of Art |access-date=24 June 2024}} and the Städel Museum.{{cite web |title=Marta Hoepffner |url=https://sammlung.staedelmuseum.de/en/person/hoepffner-marta |website=Städel Museum Digital Collection |access-date=24 June 2024 |language=en}}

Hoepffner's work was included in the 2021 exhibition Women in Abstraction at the Centre Pompidou.{{cite book |title=Women in abstraction |date=2021 |publisher=Thames & Hudson Ltd. ; Thames & Hudson Inc |location=London : New York, New York |isbn=978-0500094372 |pages=170}}