Kupka frantisek biography of nancy

  • Born in Bohemia, Kupka was active in Paris for much of his career.
  • František Kupka (aka Frank or François Kupka) has been routinely recognized more for his influence on Marcel Duchamp's paintings than for his own.
  • Even more important for Kupka than theories of color and ornament must have been Studnicka's rejection of realism.

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    Kupka and Abstract Expressionism

    Bohemian-born artist František Kupka began in the 1890s by painting portraits and historical themes. Later he went on to become one of the key figures in the development of abstract expressionism and Orphic cubism (Orphism).

    In this post we’ll see his works in chronological beställning in order to see the changes he made in his style through the years.

    c. 1896, Danse Macabre

    Kupka’s abstract works arose from a base of realism, but later evolved into pure abstract art.

    c. 1897, The Book Lover.

    Kupka was born in Opočno (eastern Bohemia) in 1871. From 1889 to 1892, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. At this time, he painted primarily historical themes.

    c. 1899, Admiration.

    While associated with Czechoslovak art, Kupka was long based in France.

    c. 1905, Self-Portrait.

    Since 1906 he lived in Puteaux, a suburb of Paris where he worked as an illustrator of books and posters.

    During his early years in Paris, became kno

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    Vertical and Diagonal Planes

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    Title:Vertical and Diagonal Planes

    Artist:František Kupka (Czech, Opočno 1871–1957 Paris)

    Date:ca. 1913–14

    Medium:Oil on canvas

    Dimensions:24 × 19 3/4 in. (61 × 50.2 cm)

    Classification:Paintings

    Credit Line:Gift of namn H. Hazen Foundation Inc., 1971

    Object Number:1971.111

    Rights and Reproduction:© 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

    Inscription: Signed (lower right): Kupka

    the artist, Paris (until d. 1957; his estate, 1957–early 1960s; sold in the early 1960s to Flinker); [Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris, early 1960s–at least 1966; probably sold to Hazen]; namn H. Hazen Foundation Inc., New York (by 1968–71; gift to MMA)

    Paris. Galerie Karl Flinker. "Kupka avant 1914," March–April 1966, unnumbered cat. (as "Plans par Verticales," 1911–12).

    New York. Spencer A. Samuels and Company, Ltd. "Frank Kupka," March–April 1968, no. 32 (as "Pl

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    František Kupka “Plans by Color (Woman in Triangles)” (1911) oil on canvas, 109 x 99,5 cm, collection Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne achat, 1957 (© Adagp, Paris 2018 © Centre Pompidou, MNAM / CCI, Dist. Rmn-Grand Palais, photo by Philippe Migeat)

    PARIS — František Kupka (aka Frank or François Kupka) has been routinely recognized more for his influence on Marcel Duchamp’s paintings than for his own. This is at long last expiring with his remarkable retrospective of some 300 paintings, manuscripts, photographs and engravings curated by Brigitte Leal, Markéta Theinhardt, and Pierre Brullé at the Grand Palais.

    Kupka was an artist’s artist of strong subjective conviction, grounding his paintings in ideas mined from mysticism, radical politics, philosophy (like Henri Bergson’s “flux” concept that imagines that intuition’s grasp of the perpetual becoming of time to be the innermost core of meaningful reality), poetry, science, and Asian cultures. Born in Eastern Boh

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