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

Biography

Hüppi was born 11 February 1935 in Switzerland. He was trained from 1950 to 1954 in Lucerne, Switzerland as a

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and worked as a journeyman until 1954. During 1958 and 1959, he traveled in the

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. In 1960 he studied sculpture at the Art and School of

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and work at the

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in Hamburg. There he became a lecturer from 1961 to 1964 for calligraphy and design. 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

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in Düsseldorf. 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. Among his students, inter alia Holger Bunk, Claus Föttinger, Bertram Jesdinsky, Silke Lever Kuehne, Horst Münch, Markus Oehlen, Thomas Rentmeister,

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. In 1998, he co-founded with Erwin Gebert the "Museum in the Bush" in Etaneno,

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. 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 *2013: Kunstverein MarburgExhibition from November 22, 2013 – January 9, 201
''Alfonso Hüppi. Bilder und Objekte.''
In: ''marburger-kunstverein.de'', Ausstellungsrückblick 2013

References

20th-century Swiss painters Swiss male painters 21st-century Swiss painters 21st-century Swiss male artists 1935 births Living people Academic staff of Kunstakademie Düsseldorf Members of the Academy of Arts, Berlin Academic staff of the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg 20th-century Swiss male artists {{Switzerland-painter-stub