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ID: 500006023
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500006023
 
Record Type: Person
Kupka, Frantisek (Czech painter, 1871-1957, active in France)

Note: Pioneer of abstract painting in Europe. From 1887 until 1891 he studied at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts and at the Vienna Bildenden Künste 1892-1893. Influenced by the painter and philosopher Karl Diefenbach. Settled in Paris in 1895 and earned his living as an illustrator and cartoonist. He continued to illustrate books as he developed a separate abstract painting style that emerged out of Symbolism. Along with Robert Delaunay and Kandinsky, he developed a non-objective style preoccupied with musical rhythym and color. Kupka was interested in optics, physiology, and anthropology. Guillaume Apollinaire coined the term Orphism around 1912 in response to the work of Kupka, Francis Picabia, Robert Delaunay, and others who were developing their own response to Cubism and Futurism.

Names:
Kupka, František (preferred,V,index,LC)
František Kupka (V,display)
Kupka, Frank (V)
Kupka, Frantisek (V,English-P,NA,U)
Kupka, Frantz (V,Dutch-P,NA)
Frantz Kupka (V)
Kupka, F. (U)
Ḳupḳah, F. (U)
Kupka, François (U)
קופקה, פ. (U)
קופקה, פרנטישק (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)
Kupka, Franck (U)
Frantisek Kupka (LU,V)
Kupka, Frans (LU,V)
Kupka, Franz (LU,V)
Frank Kupka (LU,U)
Kupka (LU,U)

Nationalities:
Czech (preferred)
Bohemian
French

Roles:
artist (preferred)
painter
graphic artist
printmaker
illustrator
watercolorist
draftsman

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Opočno (Královéhradecký Kraj, Czech Republic) (inhabited place)
Died:  Puteaux (Île-de-France, France) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   France (Europe) (nation)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
founder of ....  Abstraction-Création  
..................  (International group of artists, active 1931-1936 in Paris) [500125031]
member of ....  Abstraction-Création  
................  (International group of artists, active 1931-1936 in Paris) [500125031]
student of ....  Eisenmenger, August  
..................  (Austrian painter, 1830-1907) [500014889]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Kupka, Frantisek (I)

Biographies:
(Czech painter, 1871-1957, active in France) ..... [VP Preferred]
(Czech, 1871-1957) ..... [GRLPA]
(Czech painter in FRA, 1871-1957) ..... [BHA]
(Czechoslovakian painter, 1871-1957) ..... [PROV]
(Czech artist, 1871-1957) ..... [WCP]
(Czech artist, 1871-1957) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(Bohemian painter, 1871-1957) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, 1871-1957) ..... [GRL]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(Czech artist, 1871-1957) ..... [PROV]
(Czech artist, 1871-1957) ..... [MoMA]
(Unknown artist) ..... [GRISC]
(Czech painter, 1871-1957) ..... [IMJ]
(Czech painter, 1871-1957) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
קופקה, פ. ........ [GRL]
..................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 50058441
קופקה, פרנטישק ........ [IMJ]
............................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
Frank Kupka ........ [PROV]
........................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Frantisek Kupka ........ [PROV]
................................  Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1989-)
................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
František Kupka ........ [GRISC, MoMA, VP]
................................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
................................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
Frantz Kupka ........ [VP, WL-Courtauld]
..........................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Kupka ........ [PROV]
.............  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Kupka, F. ........ [GRL]
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 50058441
Kupka, Franck ........ [RKD]
............................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 46920
Kupka, François ........ [GRL, RKD]
................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 50058441
................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 46920
Kupka, Frank ........ [GRL, GRLPA Preferred, Grove Art, PROV]
..........................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
..........................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 50058441
..........................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
..........................  Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Künstler (1980-1986)
Kupka, Frans ........ [PROV]
..........................  Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1989-)
..........................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Kupka, František ........ [BHA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, MoMA Preferred, VP]
..................................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..................................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
..................................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
..................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 50058441
..................................  Phillips and Kaiser, Harald Szeemann (2018)
Kupka, Frantisek ........ [GRISC, IMJ Preferred, PROV Preferred, RKD]
..................................  Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1989-)
..................................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
..................................  M. Knoedler & Co. records, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2012-)
..................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
..................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 46920
Kupka, Frantz ........ [RKD Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
............................  Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
............................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 46920
............................  Witt Library, Authority files
Kupka, Franz ........ [PROV]
..........................  Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1989-)
..........................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Ḳupḳah, F. ........ [GRL]
.....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 50058441

Subject: ........ [BHA, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, GRLPA, Grove Art, IMJ, MoMA, PROV, RKD, VP, WCP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
....................  Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
....................  Encyclopedia of World Art (1959-1987)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n50058441
....................  Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1989-)
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  Havlice, Index to Artistic Biography (1973)
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n50058441
....................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
....................  McG
....................  Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art (1973)
....................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
....................  RILA/BHA (1975-2000)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 46920
....................  Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Künstler (1980-1986)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q167414
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [VP, WL-Courtauld]
.......... Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 26 October 2004
.......... Phaidon Encyclopedia of Art and Artists (1978) 371
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