Edward Hopper

The American artist Edward Hopper was born in 1882 in Nyack in the US state New York.

From 1900 to 1906 Edward Hopper studied at the School of Arts in New York. During the following four years the artist undertook vast European travelling. A longer stay in Paris influenced Edward Hopper very much in his creating. He painted especially in impressionistic manner.

From 1008 Edward Hopper lived in New York. After an exhibition in the New York K. M. Rehn Gallery the painter turned away of European painting. America and picturing of his inhabitants and their customs became his subject.

Especially often Edward Hopper delineated street scenes or interiors, thus, for example, in the famous painting "Nighthawks" and " Window at Night ". He described the shadow sides and mismanagement of the city like no one else. Also the blunted character of people was often his subject.

In 1967 with Edward Hopper one of the most significant American artists of the 20-th century died. Edward Hopper's widow left the whole reduction the Whitney museum of American kind in New York.