Frank Kortan

Frank Kortan (born in Prague, Czech Republic 1964) is a German painter, who works in style of surrealism, fantastical realism and trompe-l'oeil.

Life and work

He started his professional artistic career as a musician and in 1984 he migrated to Tessino (Switzerland), after one year he moved to Germany. Since 1990 he has been studying painting intensively, during studies he joined the German Trompe-l'oeil scene and then he started the professional career of a painter. He graduated from Masaryk's Academy of Fine Arts, Prague (1996–2000).

He lives and works in Egloffstein, Bavaria, Germany. He creates finest oil paintings, his focus is on surrealistic portraits in highest quality, e.g. an oil painting for the famous writer Ephraim Kishon. His paintings have been exhibited in many individual or collective exhibitions (e.g. Salon d'Automne Paris/France, Salons de la Résidence du Louvre/Monaco Modern Art Museum, Salvador Dalí Exhibition Musee Baron Martin Grey/France, Centre Culturel Peugeot Paris/France, Albrecht Dürer Haus Nuremberg/Germany). They are a part of private collections or the collections of public institutions as for example Albrecht Dürer Haus Nuremberg (Germany), Monaco Modern Art Museum (Monaco), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Santiago (Chile), Museo d'Arte Mendrisio (Switzerland), Levi Strauss Museum Buttenheim (Germany), Bibliothéque Royale Albert I. Brussels (Belgium).

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