- Frank Kortan
Frank Kortan (born in Prague, Czech Republic 1964) is a German painter, who works in style of
surrealism ,fantastical realism andtrompe-l'oeil .Life and Work
He started his professional artistic career as a musician and in 1984 he migrated to
Tessino (Switzerland ), after one year he moved toGermany . Since 1990 he has been studying painting intensively, during studies he joined the German Trompe-l'oeil scene and then he started the professional carrier of a painter. He graduated fromMasaryk's Academy of Fine Arts ,Prague (1996 - 2000).He lives and works in
Kalchreuth nearNürnberg , Germany. He creates finest oil paintings, his focus is on surrealistic portraits in highest quality, e.g. an oil painting for the famous writer Ephraim Kishon. His paintings have been exhibited in many individual or collective exhibitions (e.g. Salon d'Automne Paris/France, Salons de la Résidence du Louvre/Monaco Modern Art Museum, Salvador Dali Exhibition Musee Baron Martin Grey/France, Centre Culturel Peugeot Paris/France, Albrecht Dürer Haus Nuremberg/Germany). They are a part of private collections or the collections of public institutions as for exampleAlbrecht Dürer Haus Nuremberg (Germany),Monaco Modern Art Museum (Monaco ),Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Santiago (Chile ),Museo d'Arte Mendrisio (Switzerland),Levi Strauss Museum Buttenheim (Germany),Bibliothéque Royale Albert I. Brussels (Belgium).Prizes
*2001 EUROPEAN PRIZE for fine Arts by the European Union of Arts
*2001 EUROPEAN MEDAL of Franz Kafka for Artistic Creation by the European Circle Franz Kafka
*2002 WORLD PRIZE OF SALVADOR DALÍ for Fine Arts by the Alliance Salvador Dalí International
*2003 Prize of Rudolf II. for Fine Arts, Prague
*2003 Prize of Frank Kupka 2003 for Fine ArtsSources
*http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Kortan
*http://www.museen.nuernberg.de/grafiksammlung/archiv.html
*http://www.frank-kortan.com
*http://www.art-affair.net
*http://www.reprodart.com/a/kortan-frank.html
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