(Automatic translation from Croatian)

KRUPA, Alfred, painter, inventor and sports official (Alfred Joseph Kruppa, Mikołów / Nikolai, Preußisch-Schlesien 22 July, 1915 - Karlovac, 16 October 1989).

Of polyethnic and polynational origin. According to the documents, a member of the Augsburg Evangelical Church that was always said of himself that is primarily secular and humanist. He grew up without both parents (the father, little is known, except that he was also a painter / from lines of baptized Jews / and it was gone in an "uprising in Galicia" around 1919, and his mother died in 1921 at the age of 25 years ), with two brothers (Gerhard and Engelbert) and sister (Hildegard Marie) to care of his grandmother Therese Podkowa.

He finished high school in Katowice 1932. skipping classes and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in 1937 (J. Mehoffer). For the occupation of Polish prison camp mobilized in the German army, from which in 1943 passed the partisans near Donji Lapac; one of 13 "core" artists - members of art Croatian anti-fascist movement - 1944 participated in the exhibition of artists partisans in Topusko ( "Trinestorica painters and sculptors: Detoni, Radauš, Simaga, Rukljač, Prica, Claus, Cace, Cermak, Krupa, Murtic , Agbaba, Rajkovic and Čerić-exhibited over 270 works "/ Bratulić /).

He (forced laborer number 69406 in Leuna Werke-Merseburg) and his sister Hildegard Marie (who after two years of torture in the women's concentration camp Ravensbruck, mercury thrown into the furnace of the crematorium of the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau 1.2.1944.mjesec days before reaching the age 25 years ) registered as victims of Nazi persecution in the archives of the ITS - Bad Arolsen, Germany (document Ref.no T / A -2,271,761).

Alfred Krupa is the first artist who held a solo exhibition in the liberated Zagreb (Salon Ullrich, 1945), and the next year, held his first solo exhibition in Karlovac in the house Dobry (across from the Croatian at home). And in 1946 the first of the authors living in Karlovac after 1945 who donated his work ( "on board" -Sušak) newly established Gallery of images of the City of Karlovac (it was also given to other images that institution).

Two years later he exhibited twice independently in Karlovac (Building ground for Croatia, House of Culture)

Since 1945, an art teacher at the Krk (Vrbnik Gymnasium), and from 1946 until his retirement in 1971 in Karlovac (Karlovac High school, Teachers' Training School, etc.).

One of the first associates Karlovac weekly.

Watercolor him are characterized by lyrical atmosphere, transparency and its outlines, the rough paper dot structure, but they combined with a shower reminiscent of stained glass. Noteworthy are his portraits in oil (Self-portrait, 1952, double self-portrait, 1954; his legs, 1959, my son, 1967 Self-portrait, 1971; Self Portrait with a cat, 1973, GMK, My Grandson, 1975).

He painted also coastal landscapes and cityscapes, rural motifs (Four kumice) and animals (My Dog, 1983).

He believed that the concept of "neproblemskog watercolors" exists only in the minds of art theorists, not in painting tj.umjetničkoj reality.

Experimenting painting techniques, has led to plein-air painting on the seabed and made a series of paintings exhibited in 1951 under the sea That was then widely wrote "Journal".

At the same time public appearances criticizing the social and material status of artists ( "On some issues of artists", 1953, Karlovac Weekly).

1972 is remembered never clarified the case "liquidation of self-portraits" when an unknown person on the other side of the street (then JNA 8, today Domobranska 8) prostijelila forehead just completed a self-portrait artists. The set points of firing bullets portrait seems like a person standing with a towel eye doors, not as a picture.

He drew (shower, charcoal, chalk, sepia, pencil, felt-tip pen) partisan scenes, public works), cycle from the market (1964), portraits, landscapes, interiors, figuratively, concise and direct, less detaljizirajući. Cycle in reclaimed shower Spiders 1961 (Motif Korana, Arachnid) closer to abstraction. He exhibited individually in Zagreb, Ozalj, Duga Resa, Pula, and joint exhibitions at ULUH / CAA (of 1948), Likum (since 1951), exhibition of portraits (Tuzla, 1967, 1971, 1975), Karlovac painters (Karlovac 1970), Croatian Artists Njegošu (Zagreb 1973), Visual arts in National Liberation War and Croatian (Zagreb 1974), Zagreb salon (1974), Karlovac autumn art (197780, 1982-83., 1987), Karlovačko painting from 1900 to today (Karlovac 1978 ), Landscape as homeland (Zagreb 1980), Pokupski painters (Karlovac 1982), from Karas to today (Karlovac 1984), Karlovac artists from 1945 to 1985. (Karlovac 1985).

1962. He exhibits at the Grand Prix of Monte Carlo where they received special recognition from the group of advanced graphic.

Co-founder of the Biennial watercolors Yugoslavia in Karlovac in 1979, the colony watercolorist taps spring in Ozalj 1981 and the Art Workshop in the open in Karlovac in 1984 and participant of art colonies in Sisak (1973), Primosten (1979-88.), Nova Gradiska (1980) and Karlovac (1980, 1984-86.).

Posthumously his exhibitions presented in Karlovac (1990, 1997, 2006), Zagreb (1996 - "Chopin Croatian painting", 2008, the grandson AF Krupa) and Split (Festival of Croatian watercolors 1997) and the works exhibited in group exhibitions (Art Croatian anti-fascist resistance, Zagreb 1994; from the collection of the gallery's collection of the City museum Sisak, 1999).

He represented a significant number of works in the collection Bauer in Vukovar who had suffered great losses during the aggression on the city.

He was engaged in martial arts and target shooting and raised generations of Karlovac boxer (pre-war Polish amateur champion in the Featherweight category, here is a trained boxers "Udarnik", "Freedom", "Workers" and "Karlovac"). 1948.- "Particular attention is drawn to meet Alfred Krupa with Milo Bulat, champion of Yugoslavia (1946, 1949, 1952). At that time Karlovac boxers in the gym home already practicing A.Krupa who as an amateur boxer successfully performed in Poland. " (Zdravko Švegar, Karlovac City Sports, str.180.)

He was remembered as a teacher of fencing for the needs of actors City Theatre Zorin dom.

He also distinguished himself as the inventor of many inventions which unfortunately never managed to patent for a complete lack of understanding of the authorities (the boat to observe under water in 1957, a suitcase with wheels in 1954 (Bernard Sadow, then the owner of the American company US Luggage (now part of the Briggs & Riley Travelware ) in 1972 patented a suitcase with wheels), etc.).

Remember him as he walked to his Koran "skis for walking on water."

The remaining documentation shows his attempts to patent their inventions first the authorities in Belgrade, and then by the British Embassy. The artist's son Mladen Krupa dipl.ing. i'm an inventor (Bunker Kruppa-M91, one of the few examples of original defensive military equipment used in the war, now under the protection of the Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Tourism), elaborated and protect copyrighted most complex of his father's proposal in the early 1950s - present nowhere realized system for protecting ships from sinking.

God. 2005 Croatian Philatelic Society Karlovac dedication he postmark and envelope.