Name Alfred Krupa | Role Painter | |
Modern european sumi painting by alfred freddy krupa
Alfred Freddy Krupa (Kruppa) (14 June 1971) is a Croatian contemporary painter, master draughtsman, book artist and art teacher.
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Alfred Freddy Krupa comes from a multiethnic Silesian family of long tradition in visual arts. His family appears in archives of the International Tracing Service as the registered victims of Nazi persecution.
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. Krupa concentrates on essential and represents a simplified stylistic motifs.
His work in ink is considered to be of vital importance for the global integrity of the Modern ink painting.
Krupas original works on paper can be researched at Tate - London (Special Library Collection), Silesian Museum in Katowice (Poland), Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts – Dept. of Prints and Drawings (Zagreb, Croatia), 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 internautow 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).