Elmar Kopp (1929 - 2020)

Elmar Kopp

Elmar Kopp is an Austrian painter and sculptor, received artistic training from Toni Kirchmayr in Innsbruck. Despite losing his right hand in a work accident in 1949, he studied painting under Josef Dobrowsky and Herbert Boeckl, and sculpture under Fritz Wotruba at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1951. Kopp completed his studies in 1954 and became a freelance artist in Imst. He created landscape, floral, and figurative paintings, as well as numerous public artworks such as sculptures, frescoes, sgraffiti, and mosaics. Kopp also provided designs for stained glass windows and tapestries woven by his wife, Midi. He traveled extensively throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia. In 1982, he was awarded the title of Professor by President Rudolf Kirchschläger.