Jakub Obrovský (December 24, 1882 – March 31, 1949) was a Czechoslovak
art
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ist, sculptor and writer.
Biography
Jakub Obrovský was born in
Brno
Brno ( , ; ) is a Statutory city (Czech Republic), city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava (river), Svitava and Svratka (river), Svratka rivers, Brno has about 403,000 inhabitants, making ...
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Bystrc. He studied at the School of Applied Arts in Prague with
Celda Klouček, EK Liška and Stanislav Sucharda (1897-1901) and continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts with Max Pirner (1901-1905). In 1919 he became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, and later served as the rector.
Obrovský favored women's figures in his paintings, and often sculpted figures of athletes. He designed early stamps of the new Republic of
Czechoslovakia
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: the lion escaping from its chains (28 October 1919) and the allegory of economy (1920).
In 1932 he won a bronze medal for Czechoslovakia in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his "Odysseus" (see
Art competitions at the 1932 Summer Olympics
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Art com ...
).
Obrovský died in
Prague
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. His daughter
Jana Obrovská (1930 – 1987) became a noted Czech composer.
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1882 births
1949 deaths
Artists from Brno
Artists from the Margraviate of Moravia
Olympic bronze medalists in art competitions
Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Art competitors at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Czechoslovak sculptors