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List Of Czech Artists By Date
This is a list of Czech artists. These include artists in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography and printmaking as well as other genres, including installation art, performance art, conceptual art and video art. A * Miroslav Adámek, (1957-2002), painter, illustrator *Mikoláš Aleš, (1852–1913), painter * Jiří Anderle, (born 1936), painter, graphic artist *Jaroslav Augusta, (1878-1970), painter *Jan Autengruber, (1887-1920), painter B * Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová (1894–1980), graphic artist *Vladimír Boudník (1924–1968), photographer and graphic artist *Jaroslava Brychtová (1924-2020), glass artist and sculptor C *David Černý (born 1967), sculptor D * Dorrit Dekk (1917–2014), graphic designer, printmaker and painter *Jiri Georg Dokoupil (born 1954), painter F *Emanuel Famíra (1900–1970), sculptor and painter H * Vladimír Havlík (born 1959), action artist, painter *Vlastislav Hofman (1884–1964), painter, designer and ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The Czech Republic has a hilly landscape that covers an area of with a mostly temperate continental and oceanic climate. The capital and largest city is Prague; other major cities and urban areas include Brno, Ostrava, Plzeň and Liberec. The Duchy of Bohemia was founded in the late 9th century under Great Moravia. It was formally recognized as an Imperial State of the Holy Roman Empire in 1002 and became a kingdom in 1198. Following the Battle of Mohács in 1526, the whole Crown of Bohemia was gradually integrated into the Habsburg monarchy. The Protestant Bohemian Revolt led to the Thirty Years' War. After the Battle of White Mountain, the Habsburgs consolidated their rule. With the dissolution of the Holy Empire in 1806, the Cro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Černý
David Černý (born 15 December 1967) is a Czech sculptor. His works can be mainly seen in many locations in Prague. Early life Černý was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. From 1988 to 1994 he studied at the Kurt Gebauer Studio at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague and in 1995 and 1996 he participated in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, US. In 1994-1995 he took the PSI artists residence, New York, US and in 1996 he received the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant. In 1991 he took a Residency of the Swiss Government in Boswil, Switzerland Career He gained notoriety in 1991 by painting a Soviet tank pink, to serve as a war memorial in central Prague. As the Monument to Soviet Tank Crews was a national cultural monument at that time, his act of civil disobedience was considered vandalism and he was briefly arrested. Another of Černý's conspicuous contributions to Prague is "Tower Babies" (2000), a series of cast figures of crawling infants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Kotík
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Věra Kotasová
Věra Kotasová (28 May 1939 - 20 April 2019) was a Czech painter and printmaker. Born in Přerov, Kotasová studied at Palacký University Olomouc from 1957 until 1961; she then joined the institution's faculty, teaching there for many years. Her work is represented in the collection of the National Gallery of Art The National Gallery of Art, and its attached Sculpture Garden, is a national art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of char .... References 1939 births 2019 deaths Czech women painters Czech printmakers Czech women printmakers 20th-century Czech painters 20th-century Czech printmakers 20th-century Czech women artists 21st-century Czech painters 21st-century printmakers 21st-century Czech women artists People from Přerov Palacký University Olomouc alumni Academic staff of Palacký University Olomouc 20th-century women painte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marian Korn
Marian Korn (1914–1987) was a Czechoslovakian printmaker. She was born February 15, 1914, in Chomutov, Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1931, she moved to Prague, and in 1931, she graduated from the Women's College of Prague. She married in 1938, and emigrated to the United States in 1939. In 1949, she moved to Tokyo with her entrepreneur husband Frank and two daughters. In 1970, Korn accompanied one of her daughters to the atelier of Gaston Petit, where the daughter had been taking lessons. The daughter eventually became an art historian specializing in Japanese art, and, at the age of 56, Korn began her printmaking career by making woodcuts and linocuts. Her honors included a full membership in Shuyōkai (1984) and an associate membership in Kokugakai (1985). She died in Tokyo on February 24, 1987. Oeuvre Her first prints were representational, often with Japanese themes. By 1974, some were completely abstract, and by 1982, the majority were abstract. Her ''catalogue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Běla Kolářová
Běla Kolářová née Helclová (24 March 1923, in Terezín – 12 April 2010, in Prague) was a Czech Czech may refer to: * Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe ** Czech language ** Czechs, the people of the area ** Czech culture ** Czech cuisine * One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus' Places * Czech, ... artist and photographer. In 1949 she married Jiří Kolář (1914-2002). In 1985 she followed her husband in exile in Paris. They returned to Prague in 1999. She died in Prague on 12 April 2010. Style Kolářová belongs to the generation which touched off an iconoclastic revolution and "rearmament" in Czech art during the 1960s. This new wave hit the scene with a program of objective tendencies, proclaiming that art can exist as a process, concept, method, experiment and language, or as something "concrete"—such as a found and designed object. Kolářová’s training is in photography, and her role in the 1960s reversal was asso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milan Knížák
Milan Knížák (; born 19 April 1940) is a Czech performance artist, sculptor, noise musician, installation artist, political dissident, graphic artist, art theorist and pedagogue of art associated with Fluxus. Biography Childhood and early life in the Protectorate and in the former Sudetenland (1940–1960) Milan Knizak is the son of the painter, musician and teacher of mathematics Karel Knížák from Doubravka u Plzně, nowadays part of the town Plzeň, and Julia Knížáková. The parents taught in Jarov (1932–1934) and later in Blovice close to Pilsen. Milan Knížák was born in Plzeň on 19 April 1940. In 1945, after the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia the family moved to the Mariánské Lázně, a spa town in the former Sudetenland, close to the German border. There, his father played violin in a spa orchestra and Milan attended primary school, where he was interested in music and literature. He also took piano, trumpet and guitar lessons. Studies and beg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lukáš Kándl
Lukáš Kándl (born in 1944 in Prague, Czech Republic) is a Czech magic realist artist. He began specialising in oil painting at the Prague College of Art from 1959 to 1963. He continued his graduate study at the Prague Academy of Applied Art (1963 to 1969). In 1969, Kándl received his master's degree from the Academy of Fine Arts. Kándl held his first solo exhibition in Köln, Germany, in 1973, and this was followed by a string of exhibitions in Europe, Asia, Australia and America. He currently lives with his family and maintains a studio in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France. Kándl is an honorary Member of the Copley Society of Art The Copley Society of art is America's oldest non-profit art association. It was founded in 1879 by the first graduating class of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and continues to play an important role in promoting its member artists and th ... in Boston. Publications * 2007 - ''Metamorphosis'' (beinArt) * 2007 - ''L’ange exquis: Être Ange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
František Janák
František Janák (born 1 June 1951) is a Czechs, Czech glass artist. He creates glass sculptures and commission works, and also does series production design for different Czech glassworks. Biography Janák was born on 1 June 1951 in Havlíčkův Brod, Czechoslovakia. He completed his apprenticeship in glass cutting at the Bohemia Glassworks, Czech's biggest producer of hand cut lead crystal. He followed with studies at the Secondary School of Glassmaking in Kamenický Šenov. From 1971 to 1972 he was head master at the Bohemia Glassworks school, followed by three years as a glass cutter at the Co-op Výtvarná řemesla in Prague. From 1975 to 1981 Janák studied at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague under Prof. Stanislav Libenský/Jaroslava Brychtová, Stanislav Libenský. In 1981, Janák opened his own studio in Dolní Město. From 1985 to 1988 he was a glass designer at the Institute of Interior and Fashion Design – ÚBOK Prague. From 1989 to 1993 he was again a free-lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandr Vladimír Hrska
Alexandr Vladimír Hrska (May 9, 1890 – October 23, 1954) was a Czech painter, graphic designer, and scenographer. Biography Alexandr Vladimír Hrska was born May 9, 1890, in Prague, Vinohrady. He started his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 1909. After several years of general studies under Vlaho Bukovac, he was accepted to the Special Department for Graphics and Painting led by Max Švabinský, from which he successfully graduated in 1915. In 1915 he became a member of Mánes Union of Fine Arts. In Spring 1916, he married Marie (Máša) Machoňová, a graduate of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, and became the chief of stage of the Vinohrady Theatre. He closely cooperated with the stage director Karel Hugo Hilar. He was fired from the theatre during the strike in 1919 after being loyal to other employees. In the same year, he became a member of SČUG Hollar (Hollar Association of Czech Graphic Artists). Between 1921 and 1922, he work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
