Alfonso Hüppi

Alfonso Hüppi ( born February 11, 1935 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a Swiss painter, printmaker and sculptor. He lives in Baden -Baden, and at times in Namibia.

Family

Alfonso Hüppi parents came from central Switzerland. After spending some years in Freiburg im Breisgau, where Alfonso was born, they returned to their homeland. The father had been a young man, a Swiss Guard in Rome and therefore gave his son an Italian first name. Alfonso Hüppi was married to the artist Brigitta Hüppi -Weber. Children of the marriage are John Hüppi and Thaddeus Hüppi.

Life and work

Alfonso Hüppi could be 1950 to 1954 to train in Lucerne as a silversmith and worked until 1954 as a journeyman. From 1954 to 1958 he worked as a hammer worker in a hammer mill. Then he moved from 1958 to 1959 while traveling in the Middle East. This was followed in 1960 to study sculpture at the Art and Craft School Pforzheim and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg. He took over 1961 to 1964 a lectureship in calligraphy and design. From 1964 to 1968 he was assistant at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden -Baden. He then took over from 1974 to 1999 professor of painting at the Dusseldorf Art Academy.

With his class, he went on study trips around the Mediterranean to the Middle East, Africa, Italy, Sicily, Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, Kurdistan, Syria, Persia and Armenia. In 1998 he founded with Erwin Gebert the "Museum in the bush " in Etaneno, Namibia. Since then, he has been director of the local museum and the artists' program.

Students of Hüppi

Among his students were, inter alia,

• Holger Bunk
• Claus Föttinger
• Bertram Jesdinsky
• Silke Leverkühne
• Horst Münch
• Markus Oehlen
• Karl Manfred Rennertz
• Thomas bailiff
• Thomas Virnich
• Corinne Wasmuth

Exhibitions (selection)

Works in Public Collections

• Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
• Municipal Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
• Art library of the City of Dusseldorf
• Arts and Crafts Museum Basel
• Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland Bedburg -Hau
• Art collection in the archives of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
• Swiss National Library, Bern
• Museum art palace, Dusseldorf
• Collection of the State Art Academy Dusseldorf
• Museum Folkwang, Essen
• Museum for Contemporary Art, Fribourg. i.Br.
• Museum Goch
• Kunsthaus Grenchen
• Collection C. C. Vogel, Hamburg
• College of Fine Arts, Hamburg
• Baden State Library, Karlsruhe
• German Literature Archive Marbach
• University Library Münster
• Foundation Lutze, Municipal Gallery Rastatt
• National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Seoul
• Kunstmuseum Solothurn
• Graphic Collection of the State Gallery Stuttgart
• Land Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
• Wurttemberg State Library, Stuttgart
• Graphic collection of the ETH Zurich
• Swiss Institute for Art History, Zurich

Awards and prizes

Publications

• Alfonso Hüppi: Aladdin's lamp. With songs of Hafiz ... [Ed of the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden -Baden ]. Baden -Baden: Staatliche Kunsthalle, 1997, 20 pp.
• Alfonso Hüppi: fragmentation. A collection of nocturnal thoughts in the spell bag inserted and provided with volatile Doodle by Alfonso Hüppi. Dusseldorf: Parerga, 2001, 103 pp.
• Otto Jägersberg: How come almost Kafka to Baden -Baden in Grolleckr sanatorium might be. 14 calendar stories and 39 watercolors; illustrated by Alfonso Hüppi. Baden -Baden: Gallery Bargains & Brandstätter, 2005, 77 p: 39 fig, ISBN 3-00-016806-0
• Alfonso Hüppi: It would be nice - Even wars. Cologne: . Matto -Verlag, 2005, 44 pp., ISBN 3-936392-02-1