Louis Hoppe

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'''Louis Hoppe''' was a folk artist who worked in Texas during the American Civil War years.<ref>Cecilia Steinfeldt. 1993. ''Art for History's Sake: The Texas Collection of the Witte Museum''. Austin: Texas State Historical Association. pp. 131-134.</ref> Details of his life are nearly nonexistent; he is known by his works, four watercolor paintings, three of which are scenes in Colorado County, Texas.<ref>John and Deborah Powers. 2000. ''Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists, A Biographical Dictionary of Artists in Texas Before 1942''. Austin, Tex.: Woodmont Books. p. 606.</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Ratcliffe | first=Sam DeShong | title=Painting Texas History to 1900 | publisher=University of Texas Press | date=1992 | page=140 }}</ref> Among the few things known about Hoppe's background are that he was of German descent and that he worked as a laborer at one of the farms depicted in his paintings.<ref>{{cite book | last=Ratcliffe | first=Sam DeShong | title=Painting Texas History to 1900 | publisher=University of Texas Press | date=1992 | page=191 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OKF0BQAAQBAJ&pg=PT191 }}</ref> All of his known works are held by the San Antonio Museum of Art.<ref>Paula and Michael R. Grauer. 1999. ''Dictionary of Texas Artists, 1800-1945''. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press. p. 240.</ref>

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