In 1911, he attended meetings of the Puteaux Group (Section d'Or). His work became increasingly abstract around 1910–11, reflecting his theories of motion, color, and the relationship between music and painting ( orphism). Kupka's 1909 painting Piano Keyboard/Lake marked a break in his representational style. Kupka was deeply impressed by the first Futurist Manifesto, published in 1909 in Le Figaro. In 1906, he settled in Puteaux, a suburb of Paris, and that same year exhibited for the first time at the Salon d'Automne. Kupka worked as an illustrator of books and posters and, during his early years in Paris, became known for his satirical drawings for newspapers and magazines. Kupka himself left the front due to frostbite in the foot, caused by nights in the trenches waist-deep in freezing water. She later made her way to the front lines to spend time with her husband. She would have marched all the way to the front, but at the end of the first day the colonel had her arrested and sent back to Paris. She marched with them, carrying her husband's bag and his rifle. When the regiment set out from Paris for the front in Picardy (they marched all the way on foot) Mme Kupka met the column as they arrived at the La Défense roundabout, near where they lived. but really too old to be a soldier, being at least 25 years older than the rest. Cendrars describes him as a "proud soldier, calm, placid, strong". Kupka served as a volunteer in the First World War, and is mentioned in La Main coupée by Blaise Cendrars. By spring 1894, Kupka had settled in Paris there he attended the Académie Julian briefly and then studied with Jean-Pierre Laurens at the École des Beaux-Arts.
His involvement with theosophy and Eastern philosophy dates from this period. Kupka exhibited at the Kunstverein, Vienna, in 1894. He was influenced by the painter and social reformer Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach (1851–1913) and his naturistic life-style. Kupka enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where he concentrated on symbolic and allegorical subjects. At this time, he painted historical and patriotic themes. From 1889 to 1892, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Kupka's abstract works arose from a base of realism, but later evolved into pure abstract art.įrantišek Kupka was born in Opočno (eastern Bohemia) in Austria-Hungary in 1871. He was a pioneer and co-founder of the early phases of the abstract art movement and Orphic Cubism ( Orphism). František Kupka (23 September 1871 – 24 June 1957), also known as Frank Kupka or François Kupka, was a Czech painter and graphic artist.
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