Galerie Dantendorfer
Kurt Hüpfner
Selected Works
Biography
1930 born in Vienna
1947 – 1950 Training at the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna-Neubau, in the department of Commercial Graphics
1951 – 1960 Commercial graphic artist and illustrator of detective stories, caricaturist
1961 Began a serious engagement with art, including regular and persistent drawing
1962/63 Under the impression of an exhibition of sculptures by Joannis Avramidis, the first plaster sculpture was created around the turn of the year
2022 Died in Vienna, Austria
Media
Exhibitions
Solo Shows
2025 | Kurt Hüpfner | Resilience, Vienna Contemporary, Messe Wien
2024 | Kurt Hüpfner | Individuelle Mythologien, Galerie Dantendorfer, Vienna
2022 | Kurt Hüpfner | Vom Erahnen der Welt, Galerie Dantendorfer, Vienna
2021 | Kurt Hüpfner. Studio exhibition, Galerie Dantendorfer, Vienna
2019 | Surreale Wachträume, Kunstraum im Kinsky, Vienna
2018 | Gemälde, Skulpturen, Assemblagen und Zeichnungen 1960 – 2017, Galerie Ruberl, Vienna
2016 | Aus dem Verborgenen, Belvedere21, Vienna
2011 | Kurt Hüpfner. Komödie des Todes, Galerie Dana Charkasi, Vienna
2007 | Galerie Sonnensegel, Exhibition of the complete life’s work, Vienna
Group Shows
2024 | Endlicher | Hüpfner, Galerie Dantendorfer, Vienna
2022 | ALL IN 2.0, Galerie Dantendorfer, Vienna
2021 | ALL IN, Galerie Dantendorfer, Vienna
2015 | Flirting with strangers. Begegnungen mit Werken aus der Sammlung, Belvedere21, Vienna
2011 | Kunst aus einer anderen Wirklichkeit. Bilder von Außenseitern, Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt
2011 | querbeet, Galerie Altnöder, Salzburg
2010 | Der Hofmaler. Eine Hommage an Josef Karl Rädler, Galerie Altnöder, Salzburg
2008 | Kurt Hüpfner, Ernst Schmid – von Innen, Galerie Altnöder, Salzburg
2007 | Kunst von Innen, Q 21 Museumquartier, Vienna
2006 | Museumsquartier, Vienna
Publications
Kurt Hüpfner
Drawing – Sculpture – Painting
Approaches to a hitherto unknown œuvre
Published by: Peter Stasny
Publisher: Muery Salzmann
Book – 200 pages
Publication date: 01.09.2012
Born in Vienna in 1930, Kurt Hüpfner is an art industry outsider, and has always remained beyond its borders. Raised in the city of his birth, Vienna remains the epicentre of his life. Having gone largely unnoticed by the public, he created a body of work there, which includes and merges the art forms of drawing, sculpture and painting. Furthermore, his work is simultaneously unconventional in its nature and a reaction to central positions held by the art history of the 20th century.
Since 2006, Hüpfner’s work has been showcased several times in group and solo exhibitions, e. g. at Altnöder Gallery Salzburg, Dana Charkasi Gallery Vienna, Q 21 MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt, Belvedere Vienna. It demonstrates a sceptical and ironic approach to reality, often pays homage to black humour and has its origins in a fundamentally pessimistic outlook on life and the conviction of being at the mercy of a sinister destiny.