Jacques Kupfermann Landscape With Trees 1960

Expressionist Landscape With Trees.
Signed lower left.
Jacques Herbert Kupfermann (1926–1987) was an American Expressionist painter who was born in Vienna, Austria. His work, both abstract and figurative, divides into several distinct periods, reflecting both his early influences and later lengthy sojourns in countries as far apart as Mexico and Norway. Renowned for his portraits as well as landscapes, his subjects include many eminent figures. His distinctive use of impasto, the typically Expressionist love of the paint itself and rich earth colours, are perhaps some of the defining features of his work – as are his love of bleak Northerly scenery, the combination of delicacy and vibrant movement discernible in his still-life subjects, and an aura of tenderness and serenity even where a certain turbulence seems to lurk beneath the surface. Though he resisted making any obvious political or sociological statements in his work, it is not difficult to see how his early years in Vienna with all its uncertainty, daily threats and background violence, might have influenced his later paintings.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art. U.S.A.
Columbus Museum, U.S.A.
Montclair Museum, U.S.A.
Kalamazoo Art Institute U.S.A.
Newark Museum, U.S.A.
Pennsylvania Academy, U.S.A.
Academy of Norway
ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS:
Jacques Seligmann Gallery, New York, 1965
Little Gallery, Princeton, 1954/56/58
Munson Gallery, New Haven 1963/67
Kalamazoo Museum 1958
Z.O.A House, Tel-Aviv 1960
Woodstock Gallery, New York, 1966
Downtown Gallery, New Orleans, 1961/64/73
Gallery 100, Princeton 1972/75
Gallery Vincitore, Brighton 1973
Brunel University 1977
Thackeray Gallery, London 1974/76/78/82/84/86
Mall Galleries London: Royal Society of Portrait Painters, 1984/86
Galerie Richard, Kusnacht, Switzerland, 1987