Karl Adolf Krepcik

(1907-2002)

Karl Adolf Krepcik was born in Steyr in 1907. He is entitled to the technical college for steel cutting and engraving in Steyr with Prof. Gerstmayr. From 1926 to 1932 he studied painting by Prof. Sterrer and Prof. Bacher and sculpture by Prof. Müllner and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Between 1932 and 1940 he taught a secondary school in Vienna, Leoben and Innsbruck. From 1940 he was in military service and in captivity for six years. In 2002 Krepcik passed away in Steyr.

During the Second World War and until the middle of the sixties, the focus of his artistic activity was oil painting, Deren’s stylistic spectrum ranging from Austrian mood impressionism to cubist elements to German expressionism, but mostly tending towards a representational conception of images, while his graphic works, above all woodcuts, linocuts, striving for the creation of the last personal rights, a more personal reduction of form, a rhythmization of the picture surface and a different degree of abstraction before the white.

Krepcik had solo exhibitions in Steyr and Linz and participations in exhibitions, among others in Innsbruck, Salzburg, Vienna, Linz, Steyr and Wels. His works can be found in public and private collections.

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