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Edward Hopper war ein amerikanischer Maler des Amerikanischen Realismus. Hoppers in kühler Farbgebung gehaltene realistische Bilder weisen auf die Einsamkeit des modernen Menschen und Leere des modernen Lebens hin. Er gilt als Chronist der US-amerikanischen Zivilisation. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. Juli 1882 – 15. Mai 1967
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Edward Hopper zitat: „Mehr von mir kommt heraus, wenn ich improvisiere.“

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“I do not know why I chose one subject rather than another unless I believe them to be the best synthesis of my inner experience.”

quoted by Floyd Goodrich, in Edward Hopper, H. Abrams, New York 1971
1941 - 1967

“All I ever wanted to do is to paint sunlight on the side of a wall.”

Comment on his 'Early Sunday Morning' (1930) https://www.wikiart.org/en/Search/Early%20Sunday%20Morning
1941 - 1967

“After I took up etchings [c. 1915], my paintings seemed to crystallize.”

1941 - 1967
Quelle: 'Edward Hopper: The Emptying Spaces', Suzanne Burrey; in 'Árt Digest', April 1, 1955 p. 10

“It is hard for me to know what to paint. It comes slowly.”

quoted by Gail Levin in 'Edward Hopper - an intimate biography' (1995)
1941 - 1967

“I was always interested in architecture, but the editors [of the magazines who demanded these subjects for the illustrations of Hopper] wanted people waving with their arms.”

1911 - 1940
Quelle: 'Wake of the News, Washington Square North Boasts Strangers Worth Talking to', by Archer Winston, 'New York Post', November 26, 1935

“It's probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.”

Hopper’s respond on a comment of an interviewer about the 'lack of communication' in his painting art
1941 - 1967
Quelle: an interview with Aline Saarinen, 'Sunday Show', NBC-TV 1964, transcript, p. 3

“The whole answer is there on the canvas.”

Hopper's answer to journalists - quoted by Sherry Maker, in 'Edward Hopper' (1990)
1941 - 1967

“Ninety percent of them [artists in general] are forgotten ten minutes after they’re dead.”

1941 - 1967
Quelle: a letter to Margaret McKellar, 14 November 1965; as quoted in Edward Hopper, Gail Levin, Bonfini Press, Switzerland 1984

“It seemed awful crude and raw here when I got back [after his return from his third and last trip to Europe, in 1910]. It took me ten years to get over Europe.”

In a letter to his mother, c. 1910; as quoted in Edward Hopper, Gail Levin, Bonfini Press, Switzerland 1984, p. 27
1905 - 1910

“Recognition does not mean so much, you never get it when you need it.”

2 Quotes in 'The Silent Witness', Time, December 24, 1956
1941 - 1967

“They are in a high key, somewhat like impressionism or a modified impressionism. I think I'm still an impressionist.”

Interview in the late 1950's, Katherine Kuh and Avis Berman ed., in 'My Love Affair With Modern Art', New York 2006, p.276; as quoted in 'The Artist’s Voice', Katharine Kuh, New York and Evanston 1962, p.135
Hopper qualified his early Paris sketches, by adding that these sketches were direct, about the 'immediate impression', while being very much concerned to represent with representing depth
1941 - 1967

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