Zuzana Halupova (Zuzana Chalupová, 1925-2001)
Zuzana Halupova was a Serbian painter of Slovak origin, protagonist of naive painting in Kovačica (Vojvodina, Serbia) where she was born and lived her whole life. Her creative legacy consists of more than 1,000 paintings.
She started to paint in her late years. She defined her precise, detailed and illustrative painting technique through the years of embroidering work. She used to invent her own textures for embroidery, which she later painted.
She painted painting everyday life and work of Kovačica (Garden, Dinner, Harvesters, Newlyweds, Spring…). Compositions she painted weren’t by model, but were painted from her imagination. Children were dominant on her paintings, even when she painted adults, they looked like children. Even though she didn’t have children of her own, she was called “Mama Zuzana with a thousand children”, because she devoted her complete painting to children. Her paintings are filled with rich colors, flatly applied over the canvas, almost without any shadows. Her painted scenes are decorated with various textures and floral motifs.
She experienced a great success as soon as she started to paint. She was also painting for charity. She exhibited her works all around the world (Paris, New York, Rome, Vienna, Zurich, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Geneva, Düsseldorf…), and her works are part of many museum, gallery and private collections.