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Kurt Trampedach
Kurt Trampedach has created his own image universe known to most Danes.
His talent was clear for everyone to see, and he quickly achieved his breakthrough with both national and international acclaim and success. Kurt Trampedach who is best known for his paintings and graphic works of art, has also created some amazing sculptures.

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Modern Danish art

Kurt Trampedach was one of the most well-known and distinctive artists, of the last century, in modern Danish art. Virtually all Danes knew him and had an opinion of his very unique, easily recognisable paintings. The artist, Kurt Trampedach, used mostly earth tones in his paintings, and often painted people who showed different aspects of human existence. In 1984 he received the Eckersbergs Medal. It is not uncommon for a Danish home to posses a Trampedach lithograph with distinctive troll heads.

Portraits

Trampedach has, among other works, painted a double portrait of Denmark’s Prince Joachim and Princess Alexandra in 1997 as well as portraits of Povl Hjelt, Verner Dalskov, Peter Augustinus, and Vincent Lind.

Art Museums

Kurt Trampedach's works of art can be seen in ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, SMK - Denmark's national gallery, Brandts Odense, Trapholt Museum, Randers Kunstmuseum, Vejle Museum of Art, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg and Museum Salling.

Trolls

Around the turn of the century, he made a series of paintings featuring trolls, children and childish figures, which often looked directly at the viewer with questioning expressions and eyes and gave many a sense of grief, sadness and melancholy. Kurt Trampedach painted with great energy and an obsession for detail and created some unforgettable works that made a great impression on many people. The paintings were at the same time, detached, distant, troubled and melancholic yet still pure and in the moment.

Paintings

In the 1960’s, as his popularity grew amongst a wider audience, Kurt Trampedach seemed to perfectly encapsulate the zeitgeist of the Danes, with his dark, gloomy and melancholy paintings. His works were innovative, but also had clear references to past traditions of the art world. You can see inspiration from Rembrandt, especially in the early works of Kurt Trampedach, but he was also part of the youth uprising and the art that developed throughout the world during that period.

Demons

Kurt Trampedach has made countless self-portraits and paintings of people around him and especially the demons within his own psyche. He managed to portray the innermost self and see it from the outside. It is not a calm or harmonious mind reflected in his paintings and Kurt Trampedach has helped create the myth of the artist who is afflicted by inner demons and a troubled mind.

The last years of Kurt Trampedach's life

He lived out the last years of his life in the Pyrenees, in the French part of Basque Country, close to Spain. He chose to live his last years in isolation, far from other people and the art world, but surrounded by animals. He suffered from paranoia and severe depression and did not paint for the last years of his life until he died of a heart attack in 2013. He has left the world original works of art with a very special Kurt Trampedach expression.

Kurt Trampedach