Alfred Freddy Krupa

Artist Alfred Freddy Krupa during initial stages of oil on canvas painting, photograhed by Danko Fajt
Artist Alfred Freddy Krupa (Kruppa) during nude drawing, photographed by Danko Fajt
Artistic ephemera created by Alfred Freddy Krupa (Kruppa):the poster for one of his own early exhibitions (1993, Gallery Zorin Dom, with Krešimir noble Borković)

Alfred Freddy Krupa (Krūppa) (14 June 1971) is a Croatian contemporary painter, master draughtsman, book artist and art teacher.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Alfred Freddy Krupa comes from a multiethnic Silesian family of long tradition in visual arts.[7] His family appears in archives of the International Tracing Service as the registered victims of Nazi persecution.[8]

Internationally Krupa is known as a painter of portraits, so among other things, he portrayed Croatian President Franjo Tudjman (1996) and Rwandan King Kigeli V. (2013).

Significant / exquisite are his ink paintings, on rice paper using the technique Hakubyou.[9] Krupa concentrates on essential and represents a simplified stylistic motifs.[10]

His work in ink is considered to be of vital importance for the global integrity of the Modern ink painting,[11][12] and he is considered as one of the essential representatives of national and international present-day art [13]

Krupas original works on paper can be researched at Tate - London (Special Library Collection),[14] Silesian Museum in Katowice (Poland), Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts – Dept. of Prints and Drawings (Zagreb, Croatia),[15] Alfredo Guati Rojo National Watercolor Museum (Museo Nacional de Acuarela Alfredo Guati Rojo)-Mexico City (Mexico), Office of the President of the Republic of Croatia (Zagreb, Croatia) and other public, corporate and private collections.

According to the Badan Rynkowych Institute (Warsaw) survey report from 2007 (Opinie internautów o Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, nagrodzonym projekcie budynku i wirtualnym Forum sztuki), Krupa appears among 70 most wanted currently working/creating artists in the future collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (MSN).[16]

References

  1. ↑ Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online / Artists of the World Online t
  2. ↑ Getty Research Institute/Getty Museum ULAN® vocabulary
  3. ↑ Deutsche
  4. ↑ Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb - Croatia (MSU)
  5. ↑ KGZ Catalogue
  6. ↑ Alfred Freddy v.Krupa (de Kruppa) web site http://www.zhibit.org/krupa
  7. ↑ Europeana.eu
  8. ↑ Croatian Genealogical Society (in Croatian)
  9. ↑ Hakubyou/Hakuga style
  10. ↑ Dr. Andreas Beyer, Dr. Bénédicte Savoy, Dr. Wolf Tegethoff (Hrsg.), ALLGEMEINES KÜNSTLERLEXIKON (AKL) Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker (The visual artists of all times and peoples), band/volume 82 (ISBN 9783110231878), De Gruyter-Berlin, 2014
  11. ↑ European Library: Monograph Alfred Freddy Krupa (ISBN 9789537167455, authors Zvonimir Gerber, Casey Shannon, Ransui Yakata, Višnja Lasić):
  12. ↑ Virtual Library of Slovenia
  13. ↑ http://www.moderne-kunst.org/footermenu/language/english.html The Institute of Modern Art Nuremberg/Institut für moderne Kunst Nürnberg
  14. ↑ TATE-London
  15. ↑ Krupa in Croatian Academy of Sciences and Art-Graphic Art Dpt. Collection (in Croatian)
  16. ↑ Badan Rynkowich Institute of Warsaw (in Polish)
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