Alfonso Hüppi

Alfonso Hüppi

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

Biography[]

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 , , , , , 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[]

A list of select exhibitions

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

References[]

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