Anna Boudová Suchardová (23 October 1870,

Nová Paka Nová Paka (, ) is a town in Jičín District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 9,000 inhabitants. Administrative division Nová Paka consists of 13 municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 cen ...

– 14 May 1940,

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) was a Czech artist known as a still-life painter, ceramicist, textile artist and book illustrator.

Life

Anna Suchardová was born into an artistic family as the daughter of sculptor Antonín Sucharda, Jr. (1843–1911). Suchardová was a student at the primary and middle schools in

.She went on to attend the ''Women's Production Association'' (Zeichenschule zu Prag) where she was trained in handicrafts. During the years 1887–1889, she studied at the Prague School of Drawing and Painting for Ladies at the School of Applied Arts and then (1889–1893) at a special school for painting flowers with Jakub Schikaneder. She was the first female graduate of this art school. She became a member of the American Ladies Club. She exhibited with SVU Mánes (1896–1900) and also with Krasoumná jednota and the Union of Fine Artists. She married Alois Bouda, a professor at the high school who later took a position at an industrial school in Prague. When they married she added his name to hers becoming Anna Boudová Suchardová (sometimes hyphenated as Boudová-Suchardová and occasionally spelled Suchardová Boudová). The couple had two children, Jaroslav (1898–1919) and

Cyril Bouda Cyril Bouda, christened Cyrill Mikoláš Bouda (14 November 1901 – 29 August 1984), was a Czech painter, graphic artist and illustrator, professor at CTU and at Charles University in Prague. Life Born in Kladno, Bouda lived most of his life in ...

(1901–1984), who both studied at the Academy of Fine Arts. Jaroslav Bouda drowned as a young man after graduating from school.

Work

A lifelong theme of Suchardová's work were still-life depictions of flowers, initially in the Art Nouveau style, and later depicted realistically. Suchardová made her debut as a still life artist at the Umělecká beseda exhibition (1897). She received the first prize of the arts magazine ''Volné směry,'' which staged a competition for a decorative line and showed the work of competing artists side-by-side in the magazine. Around 1900, she had become one of the most important creators of applied art. She participated in the decoration of the Zemská Banka on Příkopy street in Prague (1894–1895). At the World's Fair in Paris in 1900, she exhibited several ceramic vases featuring detail made from painted plastic, and she created decorative fillings on canvas in the national exhibition. She also created painted decorative

festoon A festoon (from French ''feston'', Italian ''festone'', from a Late Latin ''festo'', originally a festal garland, Latin ''festum'', feast) is a wreath or garland hanging from two points, and in architecture typically a carved ornament depicti ...

s for Wilson's railway station (1908). She painted several portraits in pastels and gained substantial notice in artistic circles by winning various art competitions. She was also the author of the ceramic decoration of Sucharda's house as well as the Church of St. Nicholas in her hometown, Nova Paka. She presented watercolor and oil paintings of flowers at the exhibitions ''Krasoumné jednota'' and ''Jednota výtvarných výtvarných'' and designed postcards. She illustrated the textbook ''Mathioli's Herbarium'' (1931) and was the author of the book ''Decorative Flower in National Art''. Suchardová died in Prague in 1940. She is buried in the city's Bubeneč Cemetery in a family plot.

Personal life

Suchardová was born into the "famous Sucharda art family." She was:

great-granddaughter of painter and sculptor Jan Sucharda the Elder (1770–1820); granddaughter of sculptor and puppeteer Antonín Sucharda the Elder (1812–1886); daughter of sculptor Antonín Sucharda the Younger (1843–1911); sister of sculptor
Stanislav Sucharda Stanislav Sucharda (12 November 1866 in Nová Pa ...
(1866–1916), sculptor and puppeteer Bohuslav Sucharda (1878–1927), sculptor and puppeteer
Vojtěch Sucharda Vojtěch Sucharda (6 January 1884, in Nová Paka – 31 October 1968, in Prague) was a Czech sculptor, woodcarver and puppeteer. Life Sucharda was born into an artistic family as the son of sculptor Antonín Sucharda, Jr. (1843–1911). He was ...
(1884–1968), painter Miroslava Suchardová (1889–1965); wife of Alois Bouda, pedagogue of the Kladno grammar school; mother of painter Cyril Bouda.

Illustrations

* ''Dra Petr Ondřej Mathiol Natural Treatment (Herbarium or Herbalist)'', 1268 pages, 1052 illustrations, translation by Adolf Ambrož, color boards, A. Suchardová-Boudová, published by B. Kočí, 1931

Gallery

Some of Suchardová's works are represented in the Museum of Applied Arts in Prague and the

Mánes Union of Fine Arts The Mánes Association of Fine Artists ( or ''S.V.U.''; commonly abbreviated as ''Manes'') was an artists' association and exhibition society founded in 1887 in Prague and named after painter Josef Mánes. The Manes was significant for its in ...

. Anna Boudová Suchardová.jpg, Bouquet in plein air. Oil on canvas. Anna Boudová-Suchardová - Návrh na tapetu.jpg, Design for wallpaper Anna Boudová-Suchardová - Podobizna chlapce.jpg, A likeness of a boy Anna Boudová-Suchardová - váza.jpg, Vase Anna Boudová-Suchardová – kytice.jpg, Bouquet Anna Boudová-Suchardová – Madona s Ježíškem (kolem 1900).jpg, Madonna and Child Jesus (around 1900)

References

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