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Joseph Drapell Prints and Multiples

German, b. 1940
Joseph Drapell was born into the German- (and later Soviet-) occupied small town of Humpolec (near Prague) in 1940. His parents brought up their three boys not to believe in the official propaganda of the occupying regimes. Like the Czech novelist Milan Kundera, Drapell felt that life was elsewhere. Drapell escaped his birth country at his first opportunity at the age of twenty-five in order to develop his art in the free West. He landed in Halifax in 1966, grateful to Canada for accepting him. Drapell adopted an island (B-109) in Georgian Bay as his new spiritual home. The island has inspired (directly or indirectly) all his mature artistic developments to date. Drapell's aim was to contribute to the art of painting, rather than to merely make a living as an artist. Between 1968 and 1970, he studied under various visiting artists and lecturers at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. This is where he first started to develop his compression technique as a response to the paintings of Morris Louis. He settled in Toronto in 1970. Drapell walked the streets of New York with a roll of large paintings, until he was discovered by the Robert Elkon Gallery on Madison Avenue. After three exhibitions there (and several in Toronto where he was discovered by Jared Sable of the Dunkelman Gallery), Drapell achieved his first artistic breakthrough in 1974 with the Great Spirit Paintings. Joseph divides his time between Toronto and Georgian Bay (Lake Huron).
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Artist: Joseph Drapell
Heart 30/90 - unique, colourful, abstract, one off, framed monoprint
Heart 30/90 - unique, colourful, abstract, one off, framed monoprint

Heart 30/90 - unique, colourful, abstract, one off, framed monoprint

By Joseph Drapell

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As if emulating the rhythm of a beating heart, this compelling abstract print was created by the Czech born artist Joseph Drapell. Fine concentric circles in black emanate from the g...

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Unique Print - bright, colourful, abstract, one of, framed monoprint
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This compelling singular signed print–one of a kind was created by the Czech born artist Joseph Drapell. The form is reminiscent of the popular sixties’ art game called Spirograph. B...

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