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Painter Alfred Krupa (Alfred Joseph Kruppa) in 1945
Exhibition of Alfred Krupa at the historic very first Partisan exhibition held in Topusko in 1944 on the free territory of Yugoslavia ( "The First Congress of Cultural Workers of Croatia - Prvi kongres kulturnih radnika Hrvatske" at Topusko, 25th-27th June 1944).

Alfred Krupa (Alfred Joseph Krūppa 22nd July 1915 - 16th October 1989)[1] was a prominent Yugoslavian and Croatian academic painter,[2][3] inventor, sportsman and art teacher[4] born in Mikolow now in Poland then in German Empire. Since 1943[5] he has lived in Croatia, Yugoslavia.[6]

Interesting Engineering, a leading community with more than 15 million+ readers, wrote:[7] "Besides painting, Krupa was an amateur boxer and martial arts practitioner who also taught target shooting and fencing, but it is with his inventions that Krupa really distinguished himself. In 1951, Krupa created skis for walking on water which he used to walk on Croatia's Korana River. In 1954 Krupa created the first modern suitcase on wheels, and in 1957 he created a glass-bottom boat that could be used to observe under water. Krupa also invented a folding canvas catamaran and boxing gloves that could be inflated with compressed air. Krupa attempted to patent these inventions by contacting authorities in Belgrade, Yugoslavia and even the British Embassy, but he eventually gave up on the idea. Born in Mikolow, Poland in 1915, he lost both his parents at an early age and was raised along with his two brothers and a sister by his grandmother. Following high school, Krupa traveled to Krakow, Poland, where he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts. Krupa graduated in 1937, just before the onset of World War II. In 1943, Krupa escaped occupied Poland to Yugoslavia, where he became one of the core artists of the Art of Croatian Antifascist Movement.[8] With the Yugoslavian partisans, Krupa helped rescue British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's son Randolph and members of the U.S. 449th Bomb Group who were forced to land in Croatia. Krupa's sister Hildegard Marie perished in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.[9] Alfred Krupa died in 1989. He was awarded, among other distinctions, the Medal for Bravery by Yugoslavia's leader Marshal Tito."[10]

National Croatian daily newspaper Vjesnik and other journals [11][12] reported in 1950s, 1970s as well as more recently that Krupa was the very first man who painted a classical oil on paper, painting under the sea in the summer of 1950 in Vrbnik on the island of Krk. He hand-made a dive mask from truck tires and glass, a tube for breathing underwater and tied himself and a painting stand to the sea bottom. Those works were exhibited in Zagreb in 1951, but have subsequently been lost. For that his critics attacked him for being ‘too bizarre’.[13]

Alfred Krupa is grandfather and mentor of Alfred Freddy Krupa.

References

  1. ^ "ULAN Full Record Display (Getty Research)". www.getty.edu.
  2. ^ Stolz, Steffen. "Krupa, Alfred". doi:10.1515/AKL_40144503 (inactive 2021-01-15) – via DeGruyter. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2021 (link)
  3. ^ Flego, Višnja (January 15, 2014). "Krupa, Alfred, slikar (1915-1989)". Hrvatski Biografski Leksikon, Sv. 8 – via www.bib.irb.hr.
  4. ^ "Alfred Krupa". www.wikidata.org.
  5. ^ https://dizbi.hazu.hr/a/?pc=i&id=88391
  6. ^ "Was suitcase on wheels invented by Pole? New photo shows artist Alfred Krupa with iconic suitcase nearly 20 years BEFORE idea was patented by US inventor". www.thefirstnews.com.
  7. ^ "Interesting Engineering". interestingengineering.com.
  8. ^ http://portal.getty.edu/books/casa_3410
  9. ^ "Overcoming a Personal Holocaust". LIFE AS A HUMAN. April 5, 2019.
  10. ^ "Who Actually Invented the Wheeled Suitcase?". interestingengineering.com. February 18, 2020.
  11. ^ "Alfred Freddy Krupa". www.facebook.com.
  12. ^ "Svijet odao priznanje inovatorskom geniju slikara i sportaša Alfreda Krupe".
  13. ^ "The Polish-Croatian who was first to invent the wheeled suitcase". Croatia Week.
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