Alfonso Hüppi
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Alfonso Hüppi (born 11 February 1935) is a Swiss painter.{{cite web|url=http://www.kettererkunst.com/bio/alfonso-huppi-1935.shtml|title=Alfonso Hüppi|publisher=Ketterer Kunst|accessdate=23 December 2010}}
Biography
Hüppi was born 11 February 1935 in Switzerland.{{Citation needed|date=February 2021}} He was trained from 1950 to 1954 in Lucerne, Switzerland as a silversmith and worked as a journeyman until 1954.{{Citation needed|date=February 2021}}
During 1958 and 1959, he traveled in the Middle East.{{Where|date=February 2021}} In 1960 he studied sculpture at the Art and School of Pforzheim and work at the College of Fine Arts in Hamburg.{{Citation needed|date=February 2021}} There he became a lecturer from 1961 to 1964 for calligraphy and design.{{Citation needed|date=February 2021}}
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|date=February 2021}} 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|date=February 2021}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://etaneno.de/|title=ETANENO, Museum im Busch, NAMIBIA|publisher=Etaneno|language=German|accessdate=23 December 2010}} Since then, he serves as the director of the museum and the artist programs.
Exhibitions
A list of select exhibitions
- 2012: Kurt Tucholsky Literaturmuseum Schloss RheinsbergExhibition from May 12 – Juli 15, 2012 [http://www.adk.de/de/aktuell/pressemitteilungen/archiv.htm?we_objectID=30959 „Alfonso Hüppi … doch alle Lust will Ewigkeit“] In: Akademie der Künste, Press release, May 10, 2012
- 2013: Kunstverein MarburgExhibition from November 22, 2013 – January 9, 2014 [http://www.marburger-kunstverein.de/ausstellungsrueckblick/jahresrueckblick-2013/ Alfonso Hüppi. Bilder und Objekte.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215171621/http://marburger-kunstverein.de/ausstellungsrueckblick/jahresrueckblick-2013/ |date=2015-02-15 }} In: marburger-kunstverein.de, Ausstellungsrückblick 2013
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