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After early international success with her all-female punk band
Kleenex (later Liliput), Klaudia Schifferle (born 1955) recently
returned to Zurich and has thrown herself with prolific zest into
painting and drawing. Schifferle, a longstanding creative presence
in Zurich, uses oil, acrylic, lacquer and marker pen to create
images of mythical beasts and hybrid humans in dreamworld
backdrops.
Czechoslovakia's leading twentieth-century painter, Frantisek Kupka
(1871-1957) is a pioneer of modernist abstraction. As early as
1911, he was one of the most visible and widely exhibited abstract
artists in the world; later, in the early 1930s, he was a founding
member of the Abstraction-Creation group. This hefty volume--the
only monograph on Kupka currently available--offers a massive
survey of his paintings, drawings, prints, posters, sculptures,
correspondence and other ephemera from the collection of Jindrich
Waldes, Kupka's close friend and gallerist. Waldes' collection was
confiscated first by the Nazis, who deemed abstraction decadent,
and later by the Communists, who declared his work "an example of
imperialist ideology and cosmopolitan nihilism that is harmful to
the people." Also included is a foreword by Jiri Waldes, the
collector's son, and Ludmila Vachtova, one of the most
knowledgeable experts on the artist.
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