Bohumil Kubišta (21 August 1884 in Vlčkovice,

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painter and

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, one of the founders of Czech modern painting. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, but left in 1906 to study at the Reale Istituto di Belle Arti in Florence. He,

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, and five others founded Osma (The Eight), an Expressionist-oriented group of artists.

Work

Kubišta came to his individual expression gradually, at first he was influenced by the work of

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. He educated himself in

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and

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, and studied colour and the geometrical construction of painting. Kubišta, like several other Czech artists of his generation, was strongly affected by the 1905

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exhibition in Prague. Together with

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style until 1910, and exchanged ideas with German painters in

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. He also developed visual ideas learned from the work of Cézanne. His later style (approximately from 1911) was strongly influenced by Expressionism and

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. Expressionist elements, particularly his use of colour but also his subject matter, immediately distinguish Kubišta's Cubist work (such as his 1912 ''

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'') from that of founding Paris Cubists

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. He studied colour theory, analyzing the harmonic and compositional principles of painters such as

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, and

. He also paid close attention to mathematical and geometric principles. Around 1911, he became acquainted with

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and the artistic group Sursum. Kubišta joined the army in 1913. He died during the global

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which ravaged Europe during and after the

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Paintings

File:Bohumil Kubišta.jpg, ''Self-portrait'', 1908 File:KubištaStillifewithskull.jpg, ''Still life with Skull'', 1912 File:Bohumil_Kubišta_-_Svatý_Šebestián_(1912).jpg, ''St Sebastian'', 1912 File:Bohumil Kubišta - Fakir Taming Snakes.jpg, ''Fakir Taming Snakes'', 1915 File:Kubista, Bohumil - Polibek smrti (1912).jpg, kiss of a death'',1912

References and sources

;References ;Sources *Nešlehová, Mahulena: ''Bohumil Kubišta''. Prague: Odeon, 1984. *Černá, Marie: ''Dějiny výtvarného umění''. Prague: Idea Servis, 2005. *Jörg Deuter, Zweimal Prager Frühling. Über eine Ausstellung, die nicht sein durfte, und über Bohumil Kubista und die Maler der "Brücke". Buchholz 2019.

External links

Bohumil Kubišta, paintings in museums and public art galleries worldwide
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