1922 Born in Marburg, Germany
2009 Died in Mexico City, Mexico
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.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2019 Evelyn Hofer in 3 Parts: Portraits, Landscapes, and Still Lives, Danziqer Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Raum Räume II, Galerie Springer Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2017 Evelyn Hofer: Cities, Interiors, Still Lifes, Galerie Springer, Berlin, Germany
Reference, ROSEGALLERY, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Fotomuseum Den Haag, Neatherlands
Hopes of Paradise, Galerie m Bochum
Mir ist das Leben lieber. Sammlung Reydan Weiss, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
Strange and Familiar, Britain as Revealed by International Photographers, Barbican Art Gallery,
Barbican Centre, London UK
Evelyn Hofer, Hommage á Zurbarán, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
2015 Evelyn Hofer, Early Color Photography, Galerie m Bochum
Evelyn Hofer (1922-2009), Retrospektive, Museum Villa Stuck, München
Human Nature- Art Collection Deutsche Börse, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf
2014 Second Sight, The David Kronn Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Garden Galleries, Dublin
2012 Seduced by Art, Photography Past and Present, The National Gallery London UK
Play it Again, Sam, Galerie m Bochum
Dublin and Other Portraits, gallery of Photography, Dublin
Evelyn Hofer, Danziger Gallery, New York NY
2011 Weltsichten, Kunsthalle zu Kiel
Street Life and Home Stories. Fotografien aus der Sammlung Goetz, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
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
2008 Anna, Emma und all die anderen, Kunstverein Ulm
Von Kunst und Politik. Fotografie der Sammlung des deutschen Bundestages, Marie-Elisabeth-
Lüders-Haus, Berlin
07-08 “Evelyn Hofer: Washington D.C. New York City- Vintage Color Dye Transfer & Silver Gelatin
Prints 1962 – 1965,” Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
2006 Evelyn Hofer, Fundación Centro Ordóñez-Falcón de Fotografia, San Sebastian
Retrospectif, Fotomuseum Den Haag
2005 Evelyn Hofer. Photographs since 1955, Galerie m Bochum
Evelyn Hofer Ewigkeit im Augenblick. C/O Berlin.
Evelyn Hofer: Des choses simples, Théâtre de la Photographie et de l'Image de la Ville de Nice
(Katalog)
Evelyn Hofer, in: Was ist ein Stilleben? Künstlerische Positionen der Gegenwart Museumsdorf
Cloppenburg
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
2004 Portrait, Erfurter Kunstverein, Erfurt
Evelyn Hofer: Fotografien seit 1950, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
2003 Menschenbilder, Museum Bochum
2002 Overnight to Many Cities, The Photographer's Gallery, London
Visio - Sehen mit allen Sinnen, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
2001 Evelyn Hofer . Fotografien seit 1955, Galerie m, Bochum
La natura della natura morte, Galeria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna
1994 Apollo in Silver, College of Design, Iowa State University Ames, Iowa
Evelyn Hofer: Photographs, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne
1991 The People of Soglio, Witkin Gallery, New York
1989 Water, Pfizer Corporation, New York
1988 Emerson in Italy, Witkin Gallery, New York
1987 Art Circles: Portrait Photographs from ArtNews 1905-1986, International Center of
Photography, New York
FRIDA!, Mexican Museum, San Francisco
1982 Photographs, Black & White and Colour, Witkin Gallery, New York
1977 Photographs, Witkin Gallery, New York
SELECTED 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
Photo Essays
Time-Life Books
The Age of Kings
Barbarian Europe
The Irish Crosses
Turner’s Petworth
The Bayous
Pepy’s London
The Ghosttowns
The Negro in Washington
The London Sunday Times
English Prisons
Michelangelo in Florence
German artists East and West
(Just before the Wall came down) Berlin
Sir Alec Guiness and other portraits
Condé Nast publications (Vogue, Vanity Fair, House & Garden)
The Villa Medici in Rome
La maison de verre in Paris
La maison Solvay in Bruxelles
Frida Kahlo’s house in Mexico
Balthus and Montecalvello
Connoisseur
The Palazzo Pallvicini Rospigliosi in Rome
The Vatican Gardens
Washington Portraits
The New York Times Magazine
The Pope’s Poland
Saul Steinberg
Kurt Waldheim
Arthur Rubinstein
The Supreme Court
BOOKS
The Stones of Florence with Mary McCarthy, Harcourt Brace, 1959
London Perceived with V.S. Pritchett, Harcourt Brace, 1962
The Presence of Spain with James Morris, Harcourt Brace, 1964
New York Proclaimed with V.S: Pritchett, Harcourt Brace, 1965
The Evidence of Washington with William Walton, Harper & Row, 1966
Dublin, A Portrait with V.S. Pritchett, Harper & Row, 1967
Emerson in Italy with Evelyn Barish, Henry Holt & Co., 1989