E.O. Hoppé, Self Portrait, 1907
| 1878 | Emil Otto Philipp Hoppé was born to Maria and Philipp Hoppé, in their apartment at Wurzerstrasse 15, Munich on Sunday 14 April. |
| 1902 | Meets painter, Franz von Lenbach in Munich. Moves to London, where he works in the Deutsche Bank and takes up photography as a hobby.
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| 1903 | Elected a member of the Royal Photographic Society.
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| 1905 | First two works selected for exhibition at the RPS Annual Salonand marries Marion Josephine Wilhelmina Bliersbach.
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| 1906-07 | Regular prize-winner and exhibitor at photographic exhibitions and awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society (FRPS). London Illustrated News publishes twelve of his portraits.
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| 1907 | Opens his first studio at 10 Margravine Gardens, near Barons Court.
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| 1908 | Six works selected for display at RPS Salon include studies of friends and fellow photographers: A.H.Blake, Rudolf Duhrkoop and Furley Lewis and the dancer Maud Allan.
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| 1909 | With Sir Benjamin Stone, organizes Great Britain at the International Exhibition of Photography at Dresden. Begins making his early topographic views of London.
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| 1909-10 | Co-founder of London Salon of Photograph, which succeeds the Linked Ring Salon. Hoppé exhibits four subject pictures and a portrait of Sara De Groote.
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| 1910 | First one-man exhibition, of seventy-two photographs, at Royal Photographic Society, 55 Russell Square.
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| 1911 | Moves to larger studio at 59 Baker Street. Photographs leading members of the Diaghilev Ballet as well as Max Rhinehardt productions of The Miracle and Oedipus Rex.
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| 1912 | Birth of first child Frank Sidney Hoppé on 18 January.
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| 1913 | One-man exhibition at Goupil Gallery.
Takes on lease of 7 Cromwell Place, South Kensington, which he re-names Millais House after its earlier occupant, Sir John Everett Millais. |
| 1914 | New art magazine, Colour, launched. Hoppé is art editor and contributes reviews, designs, and drawings.
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| 1915 | Birth of second child Muriel Marion Hoppé on 14 December.
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| 1916 | Launch of British Vogue in September includes photographs by Hoppé who contributes editorial and society photographs to early issues.
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| 1917 | Founder and committee member of The Plough Theatre Club whose other members include architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, photographer A.L. Coburn, painter Glyn Philpot and artist George Sheringham. |
| 1918 | Photographs literary subjects including Lytton Strachey, Ezra Pound, and Rebecca West as well as an extensive series of nude studies of Ruby Lorraine, "The Kirchner Girl." |
| 1919 | Photographs Ellen Terry as the Nurse in "Romeo and Juliet" and Russian dancer Lydia Lopokova. |
| 1920 | The New York Times announces the arrival of Hoppé in the USA on the Caronia and his intention to seek five “American beauties” to be included in forthcoming proposed Book of Fair Women, published in 1921 by Alfred Knopf, New york, and Jonathan Cape, London.
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| 1921 | Takes portrait sittings in his New York studio on West 57th Street including film stars Anna Q. Nilsson, Lilian Gish, Mary Miles Minter, Marion Davies, and artists Paul Manship, James Montgomery Flagg and dancer Theda Bara.
Holds first major US exhibition at the Wanamaker Gallery, New York. Invited to Buckingham Palace to photograph George V. |
| 1922 | Major one-man show, of 221 exhibits, at Goupil Gallery (catalogue introduction by John Galsworthy).
International Theatre Exhibition at Victoria and Albert Museum. Hoppé on organising committee and contributes stage and costume designs. |
| 1923 | Visits Romania, as guest of Queen Marie and the Romanian royal family, to collect material for his first travel book, In Gipsy Camp and Royal Palace, published in 1924.
Photographic Masterpieces by E.O. Hoppé, an exhibition of 189 of Hoppé’s photographs, staged by the Asahi Shimbun Company of Tokyo, in Ueno, Japan. The exhibition subsequently tours to Osaka and an exhibition catalogue is produced in 1927. Hoppé makes woodcuts of many of his famous literary portraits. |
| 1924 | Travels to Italy; photographs Mussolini in Rome for The Graphic.
Commissioned by J. Lyons & Co to photograph the first "Nippy" waitress. Japanese photographic collection acquires 200 prints for a permanent exhibition. |
| 1925 | Travels round Britain and Ireland photographing topography for for the Orbis Terrarum series, Picturesque Great Britain, published in 1926.
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| 1926 | Returns to America: takes portraits in New York, visits Hollywood. Spends time with Native American tribes. Visits Cuba, Jamaica and West Indies.
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| 1927 | Exhibition of Rural England photographs at Dover Gallery, London, to mark publication of Picturesque Great Britain.
Takes portrait sittings in Berlin and photographs for the UFA Film Studios including studies of Fritz Lang and Brigitte Helm; undertakes topographical and industrial photography for book that becomes Deutsche Arbeit. |
| 1928 | Photographs at UFA film studios, Berlin, making portriats of film directors such as Fritz Lang, and actresses including Brigette Helm. Photographs throughout Germany making images of large industry for his book, "Deutsche Arbeit" published by Ullstein, Berlin, 1930, and of medieval villages for his book, "Romantik der Kleinstadt" published by Bruckmann, Munich, 1929. |
| 1929 | Travels to India, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), then on to Australia and New Zealand.
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| 1930 | Exhibition 79 Camera Pictures held at David Jones’ Department Store, Sydney. Becomes the first photographer to photograph across the entire Australian continent foe his forthcoming book, "The Fifth Continent" published by Simpkin Marshall, London, 1931.
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| 1931-32 | Travels to Indonesia. Publishes "London" by the Medici Societuy, London, and "Unterwegs" by by Ernst Pollak, Berlin.
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| 1933 | Acquires a cottage in Molln, Austria and visits annually to photograph for a book on Austria that is never published. |
| 1935 | Launch of Geographical Magazine to which Hoppé becomes contributor. Published "The Image of London" by Chattos & Windus, London.
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| 1936 | Publishes "A Camera on Unknown london", J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. London. |
| 1937 | Travels to Central Africa to photograph Rwanda, Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya, Cameroon, Ghana, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Leaves Millais House, which is taken over as studio by ballet photographer Gordon Anthony and subsequently artist Francis Bacon.
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| 1939 | Returns to London at outbreak of war. Concentrates on Dorien Leigh photographic agency consisting of works by Hoppé and other photographers he represents such as Paul Wolff and Martin Munkasci who contribute pictures to magazines such as Lilliput, Picture Post and Weekly Illustrated.
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| 1945 | Published his autobiography "Hundred Thousand Exposures: The Success of a Photographer", The Focal Press, London. |
| 1947-48 | Visits Jamaica and British Honduras to make national photographic surverys. |
| 1951 | Published "Rural London in Pictures", Odhams Press, Ltd. London. |
| 1954 | Exhibition A Half Century of Photography at Foyles Art Gallery, London, that later travelled to Lenbachhaus, Munich, and thereafter toured by British Council in India and Far East.
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| 1956 | Publishes "Blaue Berge Von Jamaica", Safari Verlag, London. |
| 1963 | The Saturday Book, Volume 23, edited by John Hadfield, publishes Homage To Hoppé: 16 Photographs, a series of experimental images.
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| 1968 | Photographed and interviewed by John Hedgecoe for Queen magazine and exhibition at Kodak Gallery to mark Hoppé’s ninetieth birthday.
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| 1972 | Receives Royal Photographic Society Honorary Fellowship. Publishes "Pirates, Buccaneers and Gentleman Adventurers" Thomas Yoseloff Ltd. London.
Dies on 9 December, aged ninety-four. |
