Art Knowledge: "Tomorrow in South Carolina" by Edward Hopper

• The young woman in this picture, waiting for her husband to come home, saw Edward Hopper and his wife Jo on a journey in the spring of 1929. 16 years later he painted her.
• The scene is so well-known because the Hoppers kept a diary of Edward's work. He made the sketches, his wife wrote a text.
• Hopper (1882 to 1967) was a scene collector. His studio was on Washington Square in Greenwich Village, and the painter loved walking the streets of New York, especially in the dim and dark hours when the windows were lit.
• He did not just paint the scenes that Hopper saw. The real woman, for example, was standing in a hut in the woods. Why is the house in Hoppers version in the midst of swaying cornfields? What is the woman doing in this area? Why is she dressed like she's about to set off for a concert or a fine meal?
• Hopper deliberately raised questions and deliberately left them unanswered. The clear lines of composition draw the viewer into his pictures. Who is in there, finds his own answers, develops his own film. Hoppers great art was to leave room for these many different films.
• If you walk through New York, you often think you can see the bar from Hoppers most famous painting "Nighthawks" on a street corner. Also on Cape Cod, where the Hoppers had a house, one believes to walk through Hopper images. His scenes are cleared of all the bells and whistles and can therefore play at any time and in many places.
• Hopper painted in the style of his own hoppers, somewhere between realism and surrealism. And he remained loyal to him throughout his life - while around him American Modernism and the like were all around him. a. Excursions into minimalism, futurism and pop art took place.
• He grew up in Nyack near New York, was a trained illustrator and earned his advertising money until he sold enough pictures in the mid-20s. In 1924 he married the painter Josephine Nivison. She barely painted later and stood model for her husband.
• Hopper was also inspired by the cinema. The fact that his painting "Haus am Bahndamm" in turn inspired Alfred Hitchcock to the motel in "Psycho" should have made him very happy.
• Rich patron of the arts Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was one of Hopper's early patrons. He left his artistic legacy to the Whitney Museum of American Art founded by her, which collaborates with the Bucerius Kunstforum for this exhibition. The title of the picture show: "Modern Life, Edward Hopper and his time".

The exhibition will run until 30th August, www.buceriuskunstforum.de

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