Artist of the Day, August 14, 2026 :Sophie Verger, a French emerging artist, sculptor (#3605)

Sophie Verger (1953) was born in Paris. As a teenager, she attended The Academy of the Grande Chaumière and the Montparnasse 80 evening school.

In 1970, she prepared for admission to the art schools of Paris at the Roederer Academy of Art. In 1971, Sophie Verger entered the Nissim school of Camondo, where she discovered sculpture during drawing workshops at the Museum Bourdelle. She passed the entrance examination at the Beaux-Arts and was admitted there in 1971.

She met Etienne Martin who strongly encouraged her to continue on her chosen path and then followed classical training  at the FAVRAT workshop. Several years later she opened a modelling and drawing workshop and also, organized exhibitions. In 1991, she gave her first exhibition in Paris at the Colette Gallery DUBOIS. Amazed by the exhibition  at the Louvre on German sculpture of the 15th century she began to diversify her work by modelling virgins with heads of draped animals which were exhibited in 1995 at Whitstable in Great Britain. Then from 1996 she began her the series of shields.

At this time, she created amongst other works, the stacked time less warriors, inspired by the song of Craonne. These pieces were presented in 1999 at LINEART Contemporary Art Fair in Ghent, Belgium. Then followed the series of eggs, eggs which exploded, releasing wide-eyes characters. A first exhibition in 1999 followed at the Château of Grouchy about which Jeanine RIVAIS wrote an article, and then a second exhibition at the Corderie, a former factory located in Etaples, near Le Touquet on the Côte d’Opale.

In 2000, she won the public prize at the exhibition "Sculptures & Jardins" in Lille on the theme of wildlife, a theme that gradually became for her a source of inexhaustible inspiration, reinforced by her meeting with Caroline Corre and the Animal theme exhibition at the Museum Bourdelle. She then exhibited her first bronze sculptures. The GOT gallery in Paris displayed her work. She exhibited for the first time in Brussels in 2001 at the Antique and Art Gallery then followed her first museum exhibition at the Pompon Museum in 2003. It was at the gallery Lise Cormery, in 2003, that her first rhinoceros were exhibited. During MAC editions 2003 and MAC 2005 in Paris she established numerous professional contacts to enable her to broaden her representativeness. Several municipalities acquired her work. Daniel Boulanger after meeting her at the gallery Gilbert Dufois wrote about her work. In 2008, she exhibited for the first time in Germany, then in the Netherlands, at the Burgerweshuis in Zierikzee. A second exhibition of her work took place in 2010 at the Museum Pompon and two personal exhibitions at the Galerie Gilbert Dufois in 2010 and 2014. Four large sculptures were presented in May-June 2014 in the courtyard of the Sorbonne in Paris.

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Ms. Sophie Verger

The Three Eves

Column of whippets

Young Girl Giraffe

Bull and little girl

From Hump to Hump

The Square Egg

Big Face to Face

Coming Out of the River

Big Horse, 2019

Four pizzlys, 2019

Great acrobats, 2020

Big bear and his little one, 2021

Éléphant perché, 2021

Five Young Ladies, 2021

The Sacred Boat, 2021

Young sheep, 2021

Elephant and Two Girls, 2021-22

Bembeleza, 2022

Column of dogs, 2022

Not too fast, 2022

Strange Procession, 2022

The Great Family, 2023

In top form, 2024

Bears column with three balloon, 2024

Six Elephants and a Girl, 2024

A family of acrobats, 2025

Contemplation, 2026

Artist of the Day, August 13, 2026 : Frank Hoppman, a German cartoon artist, illustrator (#2604)

Frank Hoppman (!975) was born 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

Hoppman 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.
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Frank Hoppman

Amy Winehouse, 2007

Lucinda Williams, 2008 
Portrait of the American rock, folk, and country singer-songwriter

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, 2011 
Caricature of the former French politician, economist

Jacques Chirac, 2011 
Portrait caricature of the former President of France

Helmut Schmidt, 2012 
Chancellors of Germany

Andy Warhol, 2012

Die Linke, The Left, 2012 
Political Party Satire

Peter Altmaier, 2012 
Caricature of the former German Federal Minister

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 2012 
Portrait caricature of the former President of France

Angela Merkel, 2013 
Chancellors of Germany

Konrad Adenauer, 2013 
Chancellor of Germany

Nicolas Sarkozy, 2013 
Caricature of the former President of France

Cardinal, 2014

Gerhard Schröder, 2014 
Portrait caricature of the former Chancellor of Germany

Führungskräfte, 2014-15
Executives / Management Group Illustration

Bob Dylan, 2016

Donald Trump, 2016

The Daily Fly, 2016

Turkish Justice, 2016

Kim Jong-un, 2017

Maria Furtwängler, 2017
Caricature of German actress and physician

Mark Zuckerberg, 2017

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, 2018  
Caricature portrait of the German politician and former federal minister

Jair Bolsonaro, 2020 
Political caricature of the former President of Brazil

Karl Lauterbach, 2021 
Caricature of the prominent German physician and politician

Putin, 2021

Queen Elisabeth II, 2022 
Satirical portrait 

Jack Joker, 2023

Putin, 2023