Alfonso Hüppi

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Alfonso Hüppi

Alfonso Hüppi (born 11 February 1935) is a Swiss painter.[1]

Biography[edit]

Hüppi was born 11 February 1935 in Switzerland.[citation needed] He was trained from 1950 to 1954 in Lucerne, Switzerland as a silversmith and worked as a journeyman until 1954.[citation needed]

During 1958 and 1959, he traveled in the Middle East.[where?] In 1960 he studied sculpture at the Art and School of Pforzheim and work at the College of Fine Arts in Hamburg.[citation needed] There he became a lecturer from 1961 to 1964 for calligraphy and design.[citation needed]

From 1964 to 1968 he was assistant at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. From 1974 to 1999 he was a professor of painting at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf.[citation needed] With his class, he undertook study tours around the Mediterranean in the Middle East, Africa, Italy, Sicily, Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, Kurdistan, Syria, Iran and Armenia.[citation needed] Among his students, inter alia Holger Bunk, Claus Föttinger, Bertram Jesdinsky, Silke Lever Kuehne, Horst Münch, Markus Oehlen, Thomas Rentmeister, Corinne Wasmuht.

In 1998, he co-founded with Erwin Gebert the "Museum in the Bush" in Etaneno, Namibia.[2] Since then, he serves as the Director of the museum and the artist programs.

Exhibitions[edit]

A list of select exhibitions

  • 2012: Kurt Tucholsky Literaturmuseum Schloss Rheinsberg[3]
  • 2013: Kunstverein Marburg[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Alfonso Hüppi". Ketterer Kunst. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
  2. ^ "ETANENO, Museum im Busch, NAMIBIA" (in German). Etaneno. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
  3. ^ Exhibition from May 12 – Juli 15, 2012 „Alfonso Hüppi … doch alle Lust will Ewigkeit“ In: Akademie der Künste, Press release, May 10, 2012
  4. ^ Exhibition from November 22, 2013 – January 9, 2014 Alfonso Hüppi. Bilder und Objekte. Archived 2015-02-15 at the Wayback Machine In: marburger-kunstverein.de, Ausstellungsrückblick 2013