Kurt Trampedach – the metabunker https://metabunker.dk by matthias wivel & friends Mon, 25 Nov 2013 13:08:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 Kurt Trampedach RIP https://metabunker.dk/2013/11/15/kurt-trampedach-rip/ Thu, 14 Nov 2013 23:56:34 +0000 http://metabunker.dk/?p=5996
One of the great painters of his generation, in Denmark and internationally, Kurt Trampedach died a few days ago at age 70. When he was good, he painted the human condition as lonely and traumatic, but ever inquisitive and seeking. He was a close friend of my father’s, so his images came to mark my childhood, as did his voice and occasional alert presence. My best memories of him are from a childhood summer vacation spent in his mountainside home in the Basque Country, and seeing him ecstatic, wielding a huge wine glass filled with Schweppes Bitter Lemon, at the reception for the retrospective exhibition my father organized of his work at Sophienholm, Lyngby in 2001. He was talking his head off, hugging friends and strangers, high on life and art.

Rest in peace.

For those with Danish: My dad on his friend, Peter Michael Hornung’s fine obituary,and Peter Laugensen’s, Steen Baadsgaards excellent 1995 documentary on Trampedach’s life at that immensely fertile point in his career. Oh, and you could own the above picture.

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