An archive of circa 60 drawings, lithographs and photographs by the German stage and costume designer, Bert Hoppmann (1889-1949). The collection includes 13 set designs, 22 costumes designs, including 19 in a string bound folio for the unfinished Emil Jannings film, Wo Ist Herr Belling; 9 photographs of politically charged expressionist works from 1945 and 6 similarly political lithographs backed on to card from 1937, plus several miscellaneous pieces. These pieces are dated from between 1920 and 1946 and most, save the photographs, are signed and dated in pencil.
Hoppmann worked as a stage designer for theatres in Braunschweig and Breslau in the 1920’s and early 1930’s, before moving to Berlin, where worked as a costume designer on. at least 15 films between 1938 and 1948.
An archive of circa 60 drawings, lithographs and photographs by the German stage and costume designer, Bert Hoppmann (1889-1949). The collection includes 13 set designs, 22 costumes designs, including 19 in a string bound folio for the unfinished Emil Jannings film, Wo Ist Herr Belling; 9 photographs of politically charged expressionist works from 1945 and 6 similarly political lithographs backed on to card from 1937, plus several miscellaneous pieces. These pieces are dated from between 1920 and 1946 and most, save the photographs, are signed and dated in pencil.
Hoppmann worked as a stage designer for theatres in Braunschweig and Breslau in the 1920’s and early 1930’s, before moving to Berlin, where worked as a costume designer on. at least 15 films between 1938 and 1948.
