Kurt Trampedach

Painting was a way for him to work with his own psyche, with frequent bouts of depression and mania.

[2] With his wife he moved to Sare in the French Pyrenees where he lived in a house built by himself, raising animals and painting.

In April 2002 his house and studio in France was burned down while he was in Denmark preparing an exhibition.

And within a month his studio in Copenhagen was set on fire, destroying seven large paintings.

Trampedach claimed that the fire in Copenhagen had been an attempt at his life by jealous colleagues.

Trampedach selfportrait from the 1980s painted in a more realistic style than most of hs selfportraits which generally tended towards surrealism.