Franz Kempf


Franz Kempf AM is an Australian artist.
Kempf was born in Melbourne and studied at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School and in Italy and Austria. In England he worked as a film designer with Richard Macdonald and was associated with Peter Blake, Joe Tilson, Ceri Richards and Keith Vaughan. Vaughan had an influence on Kempf’s work of the 1960s.
Kempf has worked with and in a variety of media, styles and methods including paint, print, etching, lithograph, monotype, screenprint, textile and woodcut.
Professor Sasha Grishin has described him as
He was Senior Lecturer in printmaking at the University of South Australia from 1973 to 1981 and has been a Guest Lecturer at the Slade School of Fine Art, the University of London, the Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland; Gloucester College of Art, United Kingdom and has participated in over 90 one man invitation exhibitions in America, Israel, Germany, Poland and China.
In 1964 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society UK and in January 2003 was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for his contribution to the Arts.
In 2006 a documentary film, Franz Kempf, was produced on his work.

Collections

Kempf's work is held in the following: