Alfred Krupa (Alfred Joseph Krūppa 22 July 1915 - 16 October 1989) was a prominent Yugoslavian and Croatian academic painter, inventor, sportsman and art teacher born in Mikolow now in

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then in

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. Since 1943 he has lived in

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Krupa, the former pupil of famous Polish painter

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in Krakow (finished his study in 1937), appears in archives of the

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as the registered victims of Nazi persecution. He was forced laborer deported to Germany, while his sister Hilgard Marie was burned alive at the furnace of the

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K.C. on 1 February 1944 at the age of 25. Alfred Krupa's ancestry include persons of German, Polish and Jewish origin (multiethnic Silesian family). In 1943 he has found himself in Yugoslavia, joined resistance forces, and became one of the 13 core artists of the ''Art of Croatian

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Movement'' (he exhibited at the historic first Partisan exhibition held in Topusko in 1944 on the free territory of Yugoslavia) In 1945 Alfred Krupa enrolled the

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in Zagreb (University of Zagreb) in order to formally defend and verify his academic level obtained at the academy in Krakow in 1937. He has successfully passed all examination requirements in the same year. In 1979 he inspired and cofounded the ''Watercolor

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of Yugoslavia (BAJ)'', at the time very respected juried exhibition.

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Some comments that Krupa was the first man who painted a classical oil on paper. In the summer of 1950 at Vrbnik, he hand-made a dive mask from truck tires and glass, a tube for breathing underwater, and tied himself and a painting stand to the sea bottom. Those works were exhibited in

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in 1951, but have subsequently been lost. For that, his critics attacked him for being ‘too bizarre’ (ref.

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Literature

*Encyclopedia of Fine Arts (1964) Yugoslav Lexicographic Institute-Zagreb, vol. 3, p. 256 *Encyclopedia of Fine Arts (1987) Yugoslav Lexicographic Institute-Zagreb, vol. 2, p. 146 *Croatian Encyclopedia of Fine Arts (2004), Lexicographic Institute Miroslav Krleža, vol. 4, p. 46 *Journal of Contemporary History (1976) Institute for Contemporary History, vol. 8 p. 140 *Mihajlo Ogrizović (1960), Educational and cultural work with adults in Croatia during the national liberation war Alliance of 'People's Universities' of Croatia, p. 106 *Nada Šuica, Idris Čejvan, Drawings, Graphics and Watercolors from the National Liberation War (1963) *Edo Kovačević (1965) Visual Arts of the National Revolution, Museum of the Croatian People's Revolution *Vesna Jiroušek (1958) 20th Century Watercolor in Croatia, Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts *

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, Vjekoslav Bratulić (1970) Croatian Left Intelligence 1918-1945, Naprijed, p. 177 *Karlovac Lexicon (2008) Školska knjiga and Edicija Leksikon, p. 241 *Željko Sabol: Krupa, Alfred, Encyclopedia of Croatian Art, vol. 1, Zagreb, 1995, p. 488 *Juraj Baldani: Chopin of Croatian Painting (exhibition catalog), Ulrich Gallery, Zagreb, April 4–24, 1996 *Željko Marcijuš: Krupine romantične bilješke, in: Festival akvarela Hrvatske (exhibition catalog), Split, 1997

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