Alfred Freddy Krupa

Alfred Freddy Krupa
Born Alfred Krupa
(1971-06-14) 14 June 1971
Karlovac, Yugoslavia
Nationality Croatian
Education Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb, Tokyo Gakugei University, Croatian State Institute for Education
Known for Painting, Drawing, Artists Books, Art Theory
Notable work "Roots - Korijeni"[1]
Movement New Ink Art, Informalism, Postminimalism, Neo-figurative art, Contemporary realism
Spouse(s) Ljiljana Krupa
Awards »Councillor Special Prize« at the 3rd International Exhibition of the Chinese Calligraphy and Ink Painting, Anshan (China), Medal Marshal Trompowsky, Matto Grosso do Sul (Brasil), Croatian Association of Artists Zagreb Annual Award for 2016 (Croatia) and many others[2]
Artist Alfred Freddy Krupa during initial stages of oil on canvas painting, photographed by Danko Fajt
Artist Alfred Freddy Krupa (Kruppa) during nude drawing, photographed by Danko Fajt
Alfred Freddy Krupa - Vlažno zimsko jutro na Kupi, ulje na platnu, 2017

Alfred Freddy Krupa (Krūppa) GCCR[3] FRSA (14 June 1971, Karlovac, Yugoslavia) is a Croatian contemporary painter, master draughtsman, book artist, art photographer and art teacher.[4][5][6][7][8][9]

Family background

Alfred Freddy Krupa comes from a multiethnic Silesian family of long tradition in visual arts.[10] His family appears in archives of the International Tracing Service as the registered victims of Nazi persecution.[11] His grandfather and first mentor Alfred Krupa Sr.[5][12](Alfred Joseph Kruppa, Mikolow,Poland 1915 - Karlovac, Croatia/Yugoslavia 1989, related to the Oppenheim family [13]) former pupil of Józef Mehoffer was one of the 13 core artists of the Art of Croatian Antifascist Movement (he exhibited at the historic first Partisan exhibition held in Topusko in 1944 on the free territory of Yugoslavia) [14] and founder of the Watercolor Biennal of Yugoslavia (BAJ,1979). His son Mladen Krupa created the portable metal steel bunker called Kruppa-M91 used during Croatian Homeland War, now under Croatian state protection[15]. According to the Eupedia[16] Krupa belongs to the rare Ashkenazi branch of haplogroup Q and through that paternal lineage is related to J. Robert Oppenheimer, Vilna Gaon, Henry Heimlich, Tony Kushner, Anson Williams, Nicky Oppenheimer, the Piątkowski h. Pomian family and other notables.

Education

Krupa graduated in 1995[17] at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb (est. 1907 as the Royal College for Arts and Crafts (Croatian: Kraljevsko zemaljsko više obrazovalište za umjetnost i umjetni obrt). Krupa also studied Art History (non-degree research) at the University of Zagreb (1997,1998) and in 1998/99 as the postgraduate research student (The Monbukagakusho Scholarship (文部科学省奨学金, Monbukagakushō Shōgakukin)) at the Tokyo Gakugei University (東京学芸大学) or Gakudai (学大). In 2005 Krupa finished additional art education study and has been given formal permanent title of "Professor of Drawing and Painting" by the Croatian State Institute for Education (today "Education and Teacher Training Agency"- ETTA/AZOO)[18]

Artwork

Krupas work has attracted public and professional attention from the beginning. For the first time his name was introduced to the general public in 1990 at the then mega-popular Yugoslav weekly[19] "Vikend/Weekend"[20]. In the same year his first solo exhibition was held[21].

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.[22] Krupa concentrates on essential and represents a simplified stylistic motifs.[23]

This visible/non-visible choice demonstrates, in effect, the strong productivity of Krupa at the level of deep and symbolic significance.[24]

His work in ink is considered to be of vital importance for the global integrity of the Modern ink painting,[25][26] and he is considered as one of the essential representatives of national and international present-day art, in particular of the New Ink Movement (New Ink Art)[27] [28][29][30][31]

Krupas original works on paper can be researched at Tate - London (Special Library Collection),[32] Silesian Museum in Katowice (Poland), Modern Gallery, Zagreb, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts – Dept. of Prints and Drawings (Zagreb, Croatia),[33] 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).[34]

Alfred Freddy Krupa is included in the 36th edition of Who's Who in American Art.

References

  1. ↑ "Modern Gallery - Zagreb Collection of Prints and Drawings) Wikimedia Commons". commons.m.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
  2. ↑ VisualCV.com. "Alfred Freddy Krupa - Contemporary "listed" artist - VisualCV". www.visualcv.com. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
  3. ↑ "Alfred Freddy Krupa Hereditary Knighthood Document". Issuu. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
  4. ↑ "Alfred Freddy Krupa". Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon - Internationale Künstlerdatenbank - Online.
  5. 1 2 "ULAN Full Record Display (Getty Research)". www.getty.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
  6. ↑ "Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek". portal.dnb.de. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
  7. ↑ "Muzej suvremene umjetnosti Zagreb". www.msu.hr.
  8. ↑ "Katalog Knjižnica grada Zagreba - Detalji". katalog.kgz.hr.
  9. ↑ "ALFRED FREDDY v.KRUPA (de KRŪPPA) - Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)/magister artium and Professor of Drawing and Painting". www.zhibit.org. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
  10. ↑ Europeana.eu
  11. ↑ "Prilozi čitatelja: Hildegard Marie ili zatvorenica broj 9772".
  12. ↑ "Muzej suvremene umjetnosti Zagreb". www.msu.hr. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
  13. ↑ "www.facebook.com/notes/alfred-freddy-krupa/mosche-moses-oppenheim-opp..."
  14. ↑ "Willkommen". opac.albertina.at. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
  15. ↑ "Kruppa-M91". 6 August 2017.
  16. ↑ Famous members of haplogroup Q https://www.eupedia.com/europe/Haplogroup_Q_Y-DNA.shtml#famous_people
  17. ↑ "ALU Alumni List".
  18. ↑ "ETTA description".
  19. ↑ Yugoslavia's Sunny Side: A History of Tourism in Socialism (1950s-1980s) https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=74GQBFB8G4MC&pg=PA330&lpg=PA330&dq=vikend+yugoslav+magazine&source=bl&ots=0hNQlgvX82&sig=LQR5sAIegRYSC_IZaQAKKEHzUSA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi6v6CgitbbAhWEFZoKHfyGBOYQ6AEITTAJ#v=onepage&q=vikend%20yugoslav%20magazine&f=false
  20. ↑ Yugoslavian magazine "Vikend": Alfred (Freddy) Krupa (1990) https://issuu.com/alfredfreddykrupa/docs/32785072_10215991405755622_55728895
  21. ↑ Večernji List (Evening Newspaper): Krupini crteži / Krupas drawings (1990) https://issuu.com/alfredfreddykrupa/docs/gradska_stra_a
  22. ↑ System, Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users. "JAANUS / hakubyou 白描". www.aisf.or.jp.
  23. ↑ 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
  24. ↑ Arte Al Limite ed.83 (Chile) pg. 58-63 https://issuu.com/arteallimite/docs/83_pags
  25. ↑ European Library: Monograph Alfred Freddy Krupa ( ISBN 9789537167455, authors Zvonimir Gerber, Casey Shannon, Ransui Yakata, Višnja Lasić)
  26. ↑ Virtual Library of Slovenia
  27. ↑ https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Modern_European_Ink_Painting
  28. ↑ "The Institute of Modern Art Nuremberg/Institut für moderne Kunst Nürnberg".
  29. ↑ "List of contemporary artists". 31 March 2018 – via Wikipedia.
  30. ↑ "Arte Al Limite: Reduction to deepening".
  31. ↑ https://www.wikiart.org/en/artists-by-art-movement/new-ink-art#!#resultType:masonry
  32. ↑ "If search returns no hits, display browse". library.tate.org.uk.
  33. ↑ "Krupa in Croatian Academy of Sciences and Art-Graphic Art Dpt. Collection (in Croatian)". Archived from the original on 2015-01-03.
  34. ↑ Badan Rynkowich Institute of Warsaw Report(in Polish)
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