Frank Kortan
Frank Kortan

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born 1964 in Prague, Czech Republic

My mission is to create oil paintings in highest quality in style of Fantastical Realism and Trompe-l'oeil technique.

In the blur of our time, in which the beauty and the art have been dutifully eliminated from les beaux arts, some artists continue, with courage and saintly tenacity, to paint in the spirit and with the skill of the Old Masters, though each in his own individual style. The portrait that Frank, in his inimitable mastery, has painted of me and for me, is the best one that I have ever seen - including those that I catch sight of in the bathroom mirror. I have often talked to myself, but never before have words failed me. The picture says it all. The painter has recognised me. There can be no greater compliment.
Ephraim Kishon
Appenzell/Switzerland, November 2004

Location
Kalchreuth, Germany
Website
http://www.frank-kortan.com
Education
1964
1982
1984
Since 1990

1996 - 2000

born in Prag
he starts the professional artistic carrier of a musician
he emigrates to Tessino (Switzerland), after one year he moves to Germany
he has been studying painting intensively, during studies he meets German Trompe-l'oeil scene and then he starts the professional carrier of a painter
graduated from Masaryk's Academy of Fine Arts, Prague



He lives and works in Kalchreuth near N?g, Germany.
His paintings have been exhibited in many individual or collective exhibitions (e.g. Salon d'Automne Paris/France, Salons de la Rdence du Louvre/Monaco Modern Art Museum, Salvador Dali Exhibition Musee Baron Martin Grey/France, Centre Culturel Peugeot Paris/France, Albrecht D?aus Nuremberg/Germany). They are a part of private collections or the collections of public institutions as for example Albrecht D?aus Nuremberg (Germany), Monaco Modern Art Museum (Monaco), Museo de Arte Contemporo Santiago (Chile), Museo d'Arte Mendrisio (Switzerland), Levi Strauss Museum Buttenheim (Germany), Bibliothe Royale Albert I. Brussels (Belgium).

Appraisals:

2001
2001
2002
2003
2003 EUROPEAN PRIZE for fine Arts by the European Union of Arts
EUROPEAN MEDAL of Franz Kafka for Artistic Creation by the European Circle Franz Kafka
WORLD PRIZE OF SALVADOR DALfor Fine Arts by the Alliance Salvador Dalnternational
Prize of Rudolf II. for Fine Arts, Prague
Prize of Frank Kupka 2003 for Fine Arts
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Events & Exhibitions

Events

Future Shows: Gallery Art Affair Regensburg & Cannes www.art-affair.net September - December 2006

Salon comparaison
LAnge exquis - tre ange, trange
09.11. 20.11. 2006
Grand Palais Paris, France
Avenue Winston Churchill - 75008 Paris

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