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Jan 6, 2023 · Nowadays his paintings sell for millions at auction. 🔍 Find out what he has to do with military medals and the Czech team’s uniform at the 2012 Olympic Games in the next installment of our ...
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Sep 5, 2021 · The Czech Centres and the National Gallery Prague present a joint project Highlights from the National Gallery Prague introducing selected works from the NGP collections in eleven videos. Join us...
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Jul 1, 2015 · František Kupka Artworks. František Kupka (September 23, 1871 – June 24, 1957), also known as Frank Kupka or François Kupka, was a Czech painter and graphic artist. He was a pioneer and co ...
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Frantisek Kupka lived in the XIX – XX cent., a remarkable figure of Czech Orphism (Simultanism) and Abstract Art. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
- September 23, 1871
- June 24, 1957
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- The Legacy of František Kupka
František Kupka, also known as Frank Kupka or François Kupka, was born in Eastern Bohemia in 1871, the oldest of five children of the notary Vaclav Kupka and his wife Josefa. For financial reasons, he left school and started work at the age of 13 for a saddle maker. This lack of formal schooling remained a source of humiliation for Kupka throughout...
Strunicka prepared Kupka for entry to the Academy of Arts in Prague in 1889. Here the young artist took classes in sacred and historic painting under the tutelage of František Sequens. In 1892 he moved to Vienna and enrolled in the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts concentrating on allegorical and symbolic subjects. He had some success as an artist in th...
In 1906, Kupka married Eugenie Straub, known as Nini and moved to Puteaux, a village on the outskirts of the capital where rent was lower. Here he continued to work as a cartoonist but also began to focus on his painting again and around 1910 his style became increasingly abstract, capturing ideas of color and motion, in part inspired by the first ...
Late In 1931 Kupka returned to pure abstraction and he was a founding member of Abstraction-Création, a group that was dedicated to the recognition and dissemination of abstract art and saw itself as a counterbalance to the highly popular Surrealism movement. The group attracted major abstract artists of the period including Kandinsky, Mondrian, an...
Kupka worked successfully in a variety of styles and forms throughout his career. He was a popular and successful illustrator and cartoonist, but he is most remembered as an innovative figure in the move towards abstraction and one of the first completely non-representational artists. Due to his reluctance to be associated with any individual movem...
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- September 23, 1871
- Opocno, Eastern Bohemia, Czech Republic
- June 24, 1957
Nov 15, 2014 · František Kupka (23 September 1871 – 24 June 1957), also known as Frank Kupka or François Kupka, was a Czech painter and graphic artist. He was a pioneer and co-founder of the early phases of the abstract art movement and Orphic Cubism (Orphism).
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František Kupka Amorpha: Fugue in Two Colors 1912. Not on view. Kupka was born in the Czech Republic and settled in Paris in 1896. In 1910 he became one of the first artists to work in a completely abstract mode, developing colorful, visionary paintings and watercolors such as these.
