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Bibframe Work

Title
Kurt Hüpfner
Type
Text
Monograph
Subject
Hüpfner, Kurt, 1930---Criticism and interpretation. (LCSH)
Hüpfner, Kurt, 1930---Catalogs. (LCSH)
Genre Form
Catalogs (LCGFT)
Biographies (LCGFT)
Catalogs (FAST)
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (FAST)
Language
English
English
German original
Illustrative Content
Illustrations
Portraits
Geographic Coverage
Classification
LCC: N6811.5.H7825 S8313 2018 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
Supplementary Content
bibliography
Note
Includes translation
Summary
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.
Authorized Access Point
Stasny, Peter Kurt Hüpfner