Image: Topusko 1944 Alfred Krupa

Description: digital image of the 1944 photography of the Polish - Yugoslavian partisan painter Alfred Krupa exhibition (prof. Alfred Joseph Kruppa MFA, Mikołów / Nikolai, Preußisch-Schlesien 22 July, 1915 - Karlovac, 16 October 1989, finished study of painting in 1937 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, the student of Jozef Mehoffer, painter, inventor and sports official)-https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55521527 Author of this photography is unknown and it is image of undoubted historical importance. It has been taken at the at the historic very first Partisan exhibition held in Topusko in 1944 on the free territory of Yugoslavia ( "The First Congress of Cultural Workers of Croatia - Prvi kongres kulturnih radnika Hrvatske" at Topusko, 25th-27th June 1944). Alfred Krupa was one of the 13 core artists of the Art of Croatian Antifascist Movement (Detoni, Radauš, Simaga, Rukljač, Prica, Claus, ĆaĆe, Ćermak, Krupa, Murtić , Agbaba, Rajkovic and Čerić) and founder of the Watercolor Biennal of Yugoslavia (BAJ,1979). It was a unique event in the rebellious Europe, an unprecedented event when scientists, professors, writers, poets, composers, actors, directors, along with them and amateurs were together. In the honorary presidency were appointed marshals, state presidents, writers, generals, writers, scholars, sculptors (among others Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt, Tito, Nazor, Eduard Beneš, Josip Vidmar, Koča Popovic, Aleksej Tolstoy, HG Welles, Thomas Mann, Vanda Vasiljevska, Bozidar Maslarić, Zdenek Nejedly, Louis Adamić, Todor Pavlov, Artur Toscanini, Antun Augustinčić).
Title: Topusko 1944 Alfred Krupa
Credit: Family photo album
Author: Unknown photographer
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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