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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Queen Elisabeth II, 2022 
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,%202014-15.jpg)
Führungskräfte, 2014-15
Executives / Management Group Illustration
Bob Dylan, 2016 
Donald Trump, 2016 
The Daily Fly, 2016 ,%202016.jpg)
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 
Satirical portrait 
Jack Joker, 2023 
Putin, 2023