# Louis Hoppe

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{{short description|American painter}}

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'''Louis Hoppe''' was a [folk artist](/source/folk_artist) who worked in [Texas](/source/Texas) during the [American Civil War](/source/American_Civil_War) years.<ref>Cecilia Steinfeldt. 1993. ''Art for History's Sake: [The Texas Collection](/source/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](/source/watercolor_paintings), three of which are scenes in [Colorado County, Texas](/source/Colorado_County%2C_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](/source/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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