Libor Fára (12 September 1925 – 3 March 1988) was a Czech sculptor and painter.

Biography

Fára was born in Prague. The versatile Fára graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague in the studio of

Emil Filla Emil Filla (4 April 1882 – 7 October 1953), a Moravian painter, was a leader of the avant-garde in Prague between World War I and World War II and was an early Cubist painter. Early life Filla was born in Chropyně, Moravia, and spent his ch ...

in the second half of the 1940s, developing his artistic opinion in the circle of the Prague Surrealists. The main fields of Fára’s interest were collages, assemblages and objects as well as photography. During the 1950s, Fára participated at various activities of artists, writers and theoreticians from the circle of

Karel Teige Karel Teige (13 December 1900 – 1 October 1951) was a Czech modernist avant-garde artist, writer, critic and one of the most important figures of the 1920s and 1930s movement. He was a member of the ''Devětsil'' (Butterbur) movement in the 1 ...

. Even though his works, based on poetic construction were not created spontaneously, they recollect the production of the

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movement. During the 1960s, Fára collaborated with the Prague's

Theatre on the Balustrade The Theatre on the Balustrade (Divadlo Na zábradlí) is situated in Prague, Czech Republic. The theatre was founded in 1958. Its founders - Helena Philipová, Ivan Vyskočil (1929), Ivan Vyskočil, Jiří Suchý and Vladimír Vodička named their ...

for which he created many timeless stage designs and posters. Fára is represented in the permanent collections of various major art museums, including the

National Gallery, Prague The National Gallery Prague ( cz, Národní galerie Praha, NGP), formerly the National Gallery in Prague (), is a state-owned art gallery in Prague, which manages the largest collection of art in the Czech Republic and presents masterpieces of Cze ...

, Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague, Gallery of Modern Art,

Roudnice nad Labem Roudnice nad Labem (; ) is a town in Litoměřice District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 13,000 inhabitants. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone. A steel road br ...

. In 1952, he married the Czech art historian and photography theorist

Anna Fárová Anna Fárová (1 June 1928 – 27 February 2010) was a Czech art historian who specialized and catalogued Czech and Czechoslovak photographers, including František Drtikol and Josef Sudek. She was one of the pioneers of writing on history of photo ...

. He died in Prague in 1988.

Bibliography

*Věra Velemanová; Vojtěch Lahoda: ''Libor Fára dílo'', 2006, Nakladatel: Gallery, *Eva Petrová; Anna Fárová, Jan Rous, Věra Velemanová: ''Libor Fára '', 1999, Nakladatel: Gema Art,

References

External links

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