Frantisek KUPKA (1871 - 1957) - Man and Earth, c. 1904, original drawing

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Frantisek Kupka : František Kupka (1871 - 1957) is a Czech born artist who has moved to Paris as early as 1896. He is one of the most important artits of his generation of his generation, together with Kandinsky, Mondrian and Malevich who opened the way to abstraction ... Kupka, like many artists, began by following the academic teaching he got, and his first recorded works are figurative, as evidenced by the early works in the collection of authe Musée Georges Pompidou in Paris. In 1910 he turned towards non-figurative art. Works by Kupka are present in all major collections of modern art, such as the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection (Portugal), the Museum Abteiberg (Germany), the Thyssen Bornemisza Collection (Spain), the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) ( The USA), the Museum of modern Art of the City of Paris (France), the National Gallery of Art, Washington, (USA), the Centre Pompidou - Musée National d'Art Moderne (France), the MUMOK - Museum modern Art Ludwig Foundation Wien (Austria), the Peggy Guggenheim collection (Italy), the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston) (The USA), The Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales (Uruguay), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York (The USA), the Tate Collection (United Kingdom), the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (Germany) ...