Kurt Hüpfner
Subtitle: drawing, sculpture, painting
By: Peter Stasny ; English translation: Katherine Roy
Contributors: Roy, Katherine, translator; Hüpfner, Kurt, 1930- artist
Publisher: Müry Salzmann
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Vienna, Austria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9783990141748
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Catalogs; Criticism and interpretation
Other titles: Hüpfner
Work titles: Kurt Hüpfner
Description: Born in Vienna in 1930, Kurt Hüpfner is an art industry outsider, and has always remained beyond its borders. Raised in the city of his birth, Vienna remains the epicentre of his life. Having gone largely unnoticed by the public, he created a body of work there, which includes and merges the art forms of drawing, sculpture, and painting. His work is simultaneously unconventional in its nature and a reaction to central positions held by the art history of the 20th century. It also demonstrates a sceptical and ironic approach to reality, often pays homage to black humour, and has its origins in a fundamentally pessimistic outlook on life and the conviction of being at the mercy of a sinister destiny.
Notes: Translation of: Kurt Hüpfner : Zeichnung, Plastik, Malerei : Annäherungen an ein unbekanntes Werk.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-186).