Frank Hoppmann
. . . was born in 1975 in Emsland, Germany and grew up there. From 1996 to 2002 he studied design at the Münster University of Applied Sciences, specializing in drawing, illustration and printmaking. Between 1998 and 2008 he worked as a court illustrator for print and television media, among other things. His diploma thesis was entitled “Spirits lovers have many faces” and was completed in 2002.
From 2003 to 2014 Hoppmann worked as an illustrator for ROLLING STONE magazine. In 2005 he met the well-known artist Tomi Ungerer for the first time. From 2005 to 2016 he regularly drew for DIE WELT and WELT AM SONNTAG. In 2016 he created an award-winning and internationally published portrait of Donald Trump, which appeared in the LOS ANGELES TIMES, among others.
Frank Hoppmann has received numerous awards, including the World Press Cartoon Award in Lisbon, the German Cartoon Prize in Dresden and the Grand Thomas Nast Prize. Further honors came from the Art Directors Club Germany, the SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN in Orlando and 3×3 magazine in New York.
His works have been shown in national and international exhibitions, including the Tomi Ungerer Museum in Strasbourg, the Caricatura Museum Frankfurt, the Caricature Museum Krems, the Wilhelmshöhe Palace in Kassel, the Vejle Art Museum in Denmark, the Horst Janssen Museum in Oldenburg, the Bomann Museum in Celle and the Goethe Institute in Paris.
Today Frank Hoppmann lives and works as a freelance painter, draftsman and illustrator in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia.
1975
Born and grew up in Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
1996 – 2002
From 1996 to 2002 he studied design at the Münster University of Applied Sciences, specializing in drawing, illustration and printmaking.
1997
Between 1998 and 2008 he worked as a court illustrator for print and television media, among other things.
2000
Caricaturist for the Münstersche Zeitung
1998
First work with court drawings, a little later also for major television channels, newspapers and magazines
2002
Diploma thesis with the title Spirits love has many faces; a satirical, socially critical series with over 50 large-format portraits and around 200 sketches of drunk women and men
2002
Started freelance work as a draftsman, including for large magazines such as Handelsblatt and various magazines
2003
Start of a ten-year collaboration with Rolling Stone
2005
e.o.plauen sponsorship prize, first encounter with the illustrator Tomi Ungerer, who received the main prize
2005
Start of a permanent collaboration with Welt and Welt am Sonntag
2005
Second place in the Flashback, the German prize for political photography and caricature
2007
Artist scholarship from the Emsländische Landschaft e.V., stays in Sögel and Nordhorn, with subsequent exhibitions under the title Exaggeration – Alienation – Grotesque, first intensive engagement with the fly, the pig
2007
Participation in the exhibition Till Forever – Receptions of Eulenspiegel in our time, Bomann Museum, Celle
2008
Invitation from F.W.Bernstein to take part in his 70th anniversary exhibition at the Caricatura Gallery in Kassel
2008
Exhibition participation Whatever is popular: is also allowed! The great descendants of Wilhelm Busch, Museum Seesen
2009
First place at the German Cartoon Prize, Frankfurt
2011
Group exhibition GO TO THE MUSEUM!, anniversary show on the occasion of the 10th birthday of the Caricature Museum Krems, Austria
2011
Participation in the 7th Biennale of Satirical Drawing, City History Museum, Leipzig
2011
26th International Biennale of Humor in Art, Tolentino, Italy
2012
Volume in the Masters of Comic Art series; a library with the most important German-speaking artists of comic art
2012
Personal exhibition Political Heads – Satirical Portraits, Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover
2012
Award of Excellence from the European Newspaper Award
2013
Participation in the exhibition From Duel to Duet – The history of German-French relations from 1870 to today based on the satirical drawing, Museum Tomi Ungerer, Strasbourg
2013
8th Biennale of Satirical Drawing, City History Museum, Leipzig
2014
Award from the Art Directors Club Germany (ADC) e.V.
2014
Award of Excellence from the SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN
2015
First children’s book Pit and Peggs; a joint project, the concept originally comes from the Jewish painter Felix Nussbaum, who was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944
2015
Exhibition participation Lichtenberg reloaded! A homage, Wilhelm Busch – German Museum for Caricature and Drawing in Hanover, together with Horst Janssen, Robert Gernhardt and Loriot among others.
2016
Participation in an exhibition for Tomi Ungerer’s 85th birthday in the Tomi Ungerer Museum, Strasbourg
2016
Publication of the Donald Trump portrait in the Los Angeles Times
2015 – 2019
Lecturer in drawing at the MSD Münster University of Applied Sciences
2017
Participation in the exhibition 300 Years of Hercules – Rebirth of a Hero, Wilhelmshöhe Castle, Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel
2017
Exhibition The Wonderful World of Pictures, e.o.plauen & Frank Hoppmann
2017
Exhibition Vis–à–vis–à–vis Satirical portraits of German Chancellors and French Presidents after 1945 in the Simplicissimus House Renchen
2017
Personal exhibition Animalism – Caricatura Museum Frankfurt, Museum for Comic Art
2017
Award of Excellence from the SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN, portrait “Donald Trump” for Los Angeles Times
2017
Merit Award from 3×3 magazine, New York, portrait “Donald Trump” for Los Angeles Times
2017
First Prize Winner of the German Caricature Prize for the portrait of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
2018
Thomas Nast Grand Prize
2018
Stipendienpreis des Sokol-Preis für digitale Karikatur, kritische Zeichenkunst und Satire, Krems, Niederösterreich
2020
Overall winner/Grandprix at the World Press Cartoon in Lisbon, Portugal, for the portrait “Boris Johnson”, 2019: also first prize in the “Portrait” category
2022
Second Prize at the World Press Cartoon in Lisbon, Portugal, for the portrait “Bolsonaro”
2023
Award of Excellence, Redman Award, China
2025
AI/AP American Illustration 44, AI44-Selected Winner, New York, USA
2025
First Prize at the World Press Cartoon in Lisbon, Portugal, for the portrait “Putin”
2026
First Prize at “Rückblende”, Caricature Prize of the German newspapers
2005
Sponsorship award of the e.o.plauen Prize, Plauen
2005
Vinum et Litterae, 1st place, Austrian Prize for Wine and Literature
2005
Second Prize “Rückblende”, Caricature Prize of the German newspapers
2007
artist scholarship Emsländische Landschaft e.V.
2008
Austrian Cartoon Award, 2nd place, International Cartoon Competition
2009
German Cartoon Prize, 1st place
2011
Honorable Mention at the 26th Biennale Internationale of Humor in Art of the city of Tolentino in Italy
2011
Shortlist placement at the international LICC art prize 2011 in London
2012
Award of Excellence from the European Newspaper Awards in the Illustration category
2014
Award from the Art Directors Club Germany (ADC) e.V.
2014
Merit Award from 3×3 magazine, New York
2014
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE from the SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN
2016
Shortlist placement at the international LICC Art Prize 2016 in London
2017
Merit Award from 3×3 magazine, New York for the portrait of Donald Trump in the Los Angeles Times
2017
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE from the SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN for the portrait of Donald Trump in the Los Angeles Times
2017
First Prize Winner of the German Caricature Prize for the portrait of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
2017
Gold Medal Winner of the iJungle Illustration Awards, International Graphic Design Award, Editorial Category
2018
World Press Cartoon Award, Lisbon/Portugal, Top 50
2018
Scholarship Prize, AIR – Artist in Residence Scholarship, SOKOL – Prize for Digital Caricature, Critical Drawing Art and Satire, Austria
2018
Thomas Nast Grand Prize
2020
Overall winner/Grandprix and first prize in the portrait category at the WorldPressCartoon in Lisbon, Portugal, for the portrait “Boris Johnson”, 2019
2022
Second Prize at the World Press Cartoon in Lisbon, Portugal, for the portrait “Bolsonaro”
2023
Award of Excellence, Redman Award, China
2025
AI/AP American Illustration 44, AI44-Selected Winner, New York, USA
2025
First Prize at the World Press Cartoon in Lisbon, Portugal, for the portrait “Putin”
2026
First Prize at “Rückblende”, Caricature Prize of the German newspapers
2005
Portraits, e.o.plauen sponsorship exhibition, gallery in the Malzhaus, e.o.plauen gallery
2007
Portraits, Museum of the Osnabrück District, Bersenbrück
2008
Exaggeration – Alienation – Grotesque, Emslandmuseum Clemenswerth Castle, Sögel
2008
Hessenköpp – F.W.Bernstein and Frank Hoppmann, Caricatura – Gallery for Comic Art, Kassel
2008
Heads: From Kohl to Cash, House of the Netherlands, Münster
2010
Character Heads – Satirical Portraits by Frank Hoppmann, Brandenburg State Center for Civic Education
2012
Political Heads – Satirical Portraits, Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover
2013
Frank Hoppmann – Drawings, Oldenburgische Landesbank in Oldenburg
2013
The many faces of Frank Hoppmann, Hameln Art Circle
2015
Holy Pigs, Stadtgalerie Feldkirchen
2017
Physica Curiosa, Theater Münster
2017
The Wonderful World of Pictures, e.o.plauen & Frank Hoppmann, Galerie e.o.plauen, Erich Ohser House, Plauen
2017
Vis–à–vis–à–vis – Satirical portraits of German Chancellors and French Presidents after 1945 in the Simplicissimus House Renchen
2017
ANIMALISM – Caricatura Museum Frankfurt, museum for comic art
2018
FRANK HOPPMANN, Old Town Hall Göttingen
2019
Hagen Castle
2019
Regensburg, Municipal Gallery in the empty bag of the museums of the city of Regensburg
2020
Caricature Museum Krems, Austria
2021
“FRANK HOPPMANN/MICHEL KICHKA – Rencontres de l’Illustration”, Museum Tomi Ungerer, Strasbourg, France
2022
European Cartoon Center, Belgien
2023
Karikaturmuseum, Krems, Österreich
2025
Altes Rathaus Mölln
2025
26.Ausgabe der Cartoon Xira, Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal
2006
5th Cartoon Triennale, Summer Palace in Greiz
2006
German Caricature Prize, Dresden, 2006 to 2011, 2017
2007
Till Forever – Receptions of Eulenspiegel in our time, Bomann Museum, Celle
2008
Whatever is popular: is also allowed! The great descendants of Wilhelm Busch, Museum Seesen
2008
For F.W.’s 70th birthday Bernstein, Kassel town hall
2008
Austrian Cartoon Award, Galerie Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria
2009
6th Caricature Triennale, Summer Palace in Greiz
2011
7th Biennale of Satirical Drawing, City History Museum, Leipzig
2011
26th International Biennale of Humor in Art, Tolentino, Italy
2011
TO THE MUSEUM! Anniversary show on the occasion of the 10th birthday of the Caricature Museum Krems, Austria
2012
CARICATURA VI – Comic Art – analogue, digital, international – new trends in comic art from eight European countries, Caricatura Kassel
2012
Münster ilLustRatioN, Stadthausgalerie Münster
2013
Pas de deux / Pair Skating – The German-French friendship as reflected in the caricature, Palais Beauharnais, Paris, Goethe-Institut Paris
2013
We love 8BIT – Retro Games Art Show – Hamburg, Vienna, Berlin
2013
From duel to duet – The history of German-French relations from 1870 to today based on the satirical drawing, Museum Tomi Ungerer, Strasbourg
2013
KaricARToon 2013 – 8th Biennale of Satirical Drawing, Leipzig
2014
Virtue of fools, Homage to Francis Bacon, INTOXICATED DEMONS Gallery, Munich
2014
Drawing for Peace, The Dove of Peace in Caricature, Caricature Museum Krems
2015
STROKE Art Fair Munich
2015
STROKE Art Fair Munich
2015
Lichtenberg reloaded! A homage, Wilhelm Busch – German Museum for Caricature and Drawing in Hanover
2015
Baltic Countries Caricatura part II, Gallery Old Town Hall in Gdansk, Korzenna, Poland
2016
Tête à tête – Head to Head – German and French illustrators between satire and literature, Galerie Institut Français Berlin
2016
BIKEART.GR EXHIB ATHENS / VOLOS/ THESSALONIKI, Greece
2016
STROKE Art Fair Munich
2016
Women, hear the signals, Brandenburg State Center for Political Education, Potsdam
2016
Flashback, German Prize for Political Photography and Caricature, Berlin, Hamburg, Bonn (annually since 2006)
2016
Tomi Ungerer Forever – anniversary exhibition for Tomi Ungerer’s 85th birthday, Tomi Ungerer Museum, Strasbourg
2017
Participation in the exhibition 300 Years of Hercules – Rebirth of a Hero, Wilhelmshöhe Castle, Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel
2017
System error – CARICATURA VII, The Comic Art, Caricatura Kassel
2017
Lichtenberg reloaded! A Homage, Romantikhaus, Jena and Old Town Hall Göttingen
2017
Tête à tête – Head to Head – German and French illustrators between satire and literature, Maison Heinrich Heine, Paris
2018
America, satirical drawings – Museum Tomi Ungerer, Strassbourg
2018
Vejle Art Museum, Vejle, Denmark, “The face of the power”
2019
Tomi Ungerer the European – Museum Tomi Ungerer, Strassbourg
2020
Horst Janssen Museum, Oldenburg
2020
Bomann Museum, Celle
2020
System Error 2 – Caricatura Kassel
2024
Museum Wilhelm Busch – Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst, Hannover
2025
World Press Cartoon, Lisboa, Portugal
2025
AI/AP American Illustration 44, New York, USA
2026
“Rückblende”, Deutscher Preis für Karikatur, Berlin, Germany
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