Ivan Konupek

Hello everyvone, i am Ivan - Czech painter,
portraitist and supporter of classical romanticism. I was born in 1959 in Prague.
All my life I have been learning to interpret the language of nature, I dream to be a mediator between the world of spirit and people. In art I prefer: portrait, landscape, historical painting.
The aesthetic principles set by the great masters of the past, beginning with the Renaissance, remain unshakable for me.

After primary school, I was accepted to the art school of letter painting in Prague, which enabled to get to know better the procedures of all painting techniques. And it was the technique of the old masters that is less well known today and largely forgotten, enchanted me so much that I devoted itself for the next three years. I mainly studied the composition of paints and the laying of paint paste - layered as Rembrandt or Brandl did, up to a very demanding technique of glaze paints - painted by RafaelloSanti or Leonardo da Vinci. I masters the classic mixtion gilding, but also the very demanding and complex palette technique, where gold foils can be polished to a high gloss, known from Gothic, Renaissance panel paintings.

My paintings adorn the interiors of art collectors in the Czech Re...

School of Letter Painting in Prague

2020 EtalonArtClub, Prague (solo exhibition) - permanent exhibition

2018 1st International Watercolor Festival in the Czech Republic, Prague (collective exhibition)

2017 WaterColorExhibitions, Bratislava Slovakia (collective exhibition)

2016 UrbinoWaterColorExhibitions, Prague (collective exhibition)

2015 Brashov, Bastion Museum, Romania (collective exhibition)

2013 Gallery on Old Town Square - Prague (solo exhibition)

2012 SusevaMuseum, Romania (collective exhibition),

2010 Bucovina - International Exhibition de Pictura, Romania (collective exhibition)

2008 Karlovy Vary - Grand Hotel Pupp (collective exhibition)

2006 Art Center Prague (collective exhibition)

2004 Colors of Autumn, Český Krumlov, DoxaGallery 99% of the exhibited paintings were sold to the Netherlands, Japan (collective exhibition)

2003 Sales exhibition in the restaurant Ve dvoře - Plzeň (collective exhibition)

2002 Embassy of Indonesia, Prague (collective exhibition)
2001 Frankfurt amMain, an international exhibition led by the Art Center (collective exhibition)

2000 Karlovy Vary, Colonnade Gallery (solo exhibition)

2000 Český Krumlov, DoxaGallery (collective exhibition)

1996 Prague, ChimeraGallery (collective exhibitio...