Norbert Tappert

Life is art. Art is my life.

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The eccentric Art Brut artist, Norbert Tappert by his own name, was born on November 2 as the son of the Ruthenian inventor Nikola Tappert (Tappertuum Mobile) and the Tatar princess Maria, daughter of Khan Topolanchin.
He received his first camera - ETJUD - at the age of three, and this predetermined his future direction.
He spent his childhood in eastern Slovakia, mostly in Košice, where in the late nineties he devoted himself to performances. Around the same time he began to devote himself to artistic photography and its computer mutations and exhibited in Poprad, Košice and Bratislava. Subsequently, with his peers, director Gejz Dezorz and writer Agda Bavi Pain, he founded the so-called Ignorant Generation. "We disagree! We don't pay attention! We don't know!" read their Manifesto.
In 2000, he moved to Prague, where for a decade he lost himself in the world of commercial visual production, and in himself. "I have been and will be Ignorant. I live exclusively in my own world. Twice I have photographed death, but I have survived. I need to create!"
In 2015, he exhibited a set of over 35 large-format colour photographs from his extraordinary world at the Central-european House of Photography in B...

2023 Galerie 1, Prague
2023 Galerie DNM, Prague
2022 Pasáž českého designu, Prague
2021 Galerie Slovenský dom, Prague
2018 Galerie OD Kotva, Prague
2017 Galerie CSOB, Havlickuv Brod
2015 Central European House of Photography, Bratislava