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Vlasta Prachatická
Vlasta Prachatická (27 November 1929 – 27 April 2022) was a Czech portrait sculptor, honorary member of the British Society of Portrait Sculptors. Life After the war, she spent a year at the Higher Industrial School of Sculpture and Stonemasonry in Hořice, where her teacher was Myslbek's pupil Prof. Jaroslav Plichta. In 1946–1951 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in the studio of Professor Otakar Španiel. Her graduation ''Portrait of mother'', exhibited in 1951, was purchased by the National Gallery. In 1952 she acquired an apartment in Prague 7, Nad Královskou oborou 23, which she partly used as a studio. In 1953 she married the sculptor Stanislav Kolíbal. Their daughter Markéta Prachatická (born 1953), is an artist, their son Pavel Kolíbal (born 1956), is an architect. In 1952, she took part in a joint exhibition at the Academy in Berlin and in 1957 in a joint exhibition of five artists in the Aleš Hall of the Umělecká beseda, prepared by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Staré Smrkovice
Staré Smrkovice is a municipality and village in Jičín District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, and historically known as Bohemia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the south .... It has about 300 inhabitants. Demographics Notable people * Vlasta Prachatická (1929–2022), sculptor References External links * Villages in Jičín District {{HradecKrálové-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Foreign Affairs (Czechoslovakia)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia refers to the foreign affairs ministry which was responsible for representing internationally Czechoslovakia during its existence, from 1918 to 1992. List of ministers First Czechoslovak Republic (1918–1938) Second Czechoslovak Republic (1938–1939) Czechoslovak government-in-exile (1940–1945) Third Czechoslovak Republic (1945–1948) Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (1948–1989) Czech and Slovak Federative Republic (1989–1992) Timeline See also * Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Czech Republic) ** Minister of Foreign Affairs (Czech Republic) * Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Slovakia) ** Minister of Foreign Affairs (Slovakia) External linksCzechoslovak ministries, etc – Rulers.org {{DEFAULTSORT:Ministry Of Foreign Affairs (Czechoslovakia) Foreign ministers of Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Bořkovec
Pavel Bořkovec (10 June 1894, in Prague – 22 July 1972, in Prague) was a Czech composer and music teacher. Bořkovec studied at the Prague Conservatory under Josef Suk. From 1946 to 1967 he taught at the Academy of Musical Arts in Prague. His students there included Pavel Blatný, Jiří Pauer, Vladimír Sommer, Petr Eben, Jan Klusák and Jan Truhlář. Among his compositions are two operas, two piano concertos, a concerto grosso, a ballet, and five string quartets. His work was also part of the music event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics. Selected works ;Stage * ''Krysař'', Ballet-Pantomime in 2 scenes (1939) * ''Paleček'', Opera (1959) * ''Satyr'', Opera after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1942) ;Orchestra * Concerto for cello and orchestra (1952) * Concerto No.1 for piano and orchestra (1931) * Concerto No.2 for piano and orchestra (1949–1950) * Concerto for Violin and Orchestra * ''Concerto grosso'' (1942) * ''Partita per grande orchestra'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marino Marini (sculptor)
Marino Marini (27 February 1901 – 6 August 1980) was an Italian sculptor and educator. Biography He attended the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence in 1917. Although he never abandoned painting, Marini devoted himself primarily to sculpture from about 1922. From this time his work was influenced by Etruscan art and the sculpture of Arturo Martini. Marini succeeded Martini as professor at the Scuola d’Arte di Villa Reale in Monza, near Milan, in 1929, a position he retained until 1940. During this period, Marini traveled frequently to Paris, where he associated with Massimo Campigli, Giorgio de Chirico, Alberto Magnelli, and Filippo Tibertelli de Pisis. In 1936 he moved to Tenero-Locarno, in Ticino Canton, Switzerland; during the following few years the artist often visited Zürich and Basel, where he became a friend of Alberto Giacometti, Germaine Richier, and Fritz Wotruba. In 1936, he received the Prize of the Quadriennale of Rome. In 1938, he married Mercedes Pedrazzin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Gutfreund
Otto Gutfreund (3 August 1889 – 2 June 1927) also written Oto Gutfreund, was a Czechoslovak sculptor. After studying art in Prague and Paris, he became known in the 1910s for his sculptures in a cubist style. After his service in the World War I, First World War he worked in a more realistic style. His later work includes many small polychrome ceramic figures as well as architectural decorations. Early life Otto Gutfreund was born in the town of Dvůr Králové nad Labem, Bohemia, into a Jewish people, Jewish family as the fourth of five children of Karel and Emilie Gutfreund. During 1903 to 1906 he studied pottery at the Škola výtvarných umění (School of Creative Arts) in the town of Bechyně. From 1906 to 1909 he studied in the figurative and ornamental modelling department of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Umělecko-průmyslová škola (College of Decorative Arts) in Prague. Gutfreund discovered the works of the French sculptor Antoine Bour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medardo Rosso
Medardo Rosso (; 21 June 1858 – 31 March 1928) was an Italian sculptor. He is considered, like his contemporary and admirer Auguste Rodin, to have been an artist working in a post-Impressionist style. Biography and works Rosso was born in Turin, where his father worked as a railway station inspector, and the family moved to Milan when Rosso was twelve. At the age of 24, after a spell in the army, Rosso enrolled at the Brera Academy, from which he would soon be expelled after punching a student who refused to sign a petition that Rosso had circulated demanding that live models and body parts be used for the drawing classes, which was standard practice in Italian academies at the time. In his 1889 almanac of living artists, Angelo de Gubernatis offered a romanticized portrait of Rosso's early years as an artist: (He) rebelled at each school, with each method, with each Academy, abhorring anything that smacked of trade, of artifice, soon found himself alone, without support, wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti (, , ; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, Drafter, draftsman and Printmaking, printmaker, who was one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century. His work was particularly influenced by artistic styles such as Cubism and Surrealism. Philosophical questions about the human condition, as well as Existentialism, existential and phenomenology (philosophy), phenomenological debates played a significant role in his work. Beginning in 1922, he lived and worked mainly in Paris but regularly visited his hometown Borgonovo, Switzerland, Borgonovo to see his family and work on his art. Around 1935, he gave up on his Surrealist influences to pursue a more deepened analysis of Figurative art, figurative compositions. Giacometti wrote texts for periodicals and exhibition catalogues and recorded his thoughts and memories in notebooks and diaries. His critical nature led to self-doubt about his own work and his self-perceived inabili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste Rodin
François Auguste René Rodin (; ; 12 November 184017 November 1917) was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, and deeply pocketed surface in clay. He is known for such sculptures as ''The Thinker'', ''Monument to Balzac'', ''The Kiss (Rodin sculpture), The Kiss'', ''The Burghers of Calais'', and ''The Gates of Hell''. Many of Rodin's most notable sculptures were criticized, as they clashed with predominant figurative sculpture traditions in which works were decorative, formulaic, or highly Theme (arts), thematic. Rodin's most original work departed from traditional themes of mythology and allegory. He modeled the human body with naturalism, and his sculptures celebrate individual character and physicality. Although Rodin was sensitive to the controversy surrounding his work, he refused to change his sty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Despiau
Charles Despiau (November 4, 1874 – October 30, 1946) was a French sculptor and teacher. He also worked as a draftsman, graphic artist and book illustrator. Early life Charles-Albert Despiau was born at Mont-de-Marsan, Landes and attended first the École des Arts Décoratifs and later the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. He began exhibiting at the Salon des Artistes Français, from 1898 to 1900; then at the less academic Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, where he showed from 1901 to 1921, and finally to the Salon des Tuileries, where he exhibited from 1923 to 1944. Career French sculptor Auguste Rodin hired him as an assistant in 1907. Despiau worked with Rodin, as well as doing his own sculpture. In 1914, when he was drafted for service in the camouflage unit in World War I. He taught sculpture classes for many years at Académie Scandinave in Paris. Returning to making sculpture after the war, his success was established with his one-man show at the Brummer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiří Šetlík
Jiří Šetlík (2 April 1929 – 28 January 2023) was a Czech art historian, art critic and academic. Life and career Born in Prague, Šetlík was the son of the founder of the pharmaceutical company Ivan Šetlík, a political dissident who was condemned to two and a half years in prison for espionage in a show trial. The mother was an employee in the administration of the Czech Philharmonic. Šetlík studied Art History and Aesthetics at Charles University, graduating in 1953. After serving three years of military service in the army auxiliary battalions (PTP) as an "enlightenment officer", he got a doctorate in History and Theory of Art at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. He then worked at the National Gallery Prague until 1964, when he became editor-in-chief of the art magazine ''Výtvarná práca'', which he characterized as a liberal and pluralistic magazine also covering the western art scene. In 1968 he was nominated director of the Museum of Decorative Arts, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saché, Indre-et-Loire
Saché () is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France. Population See also *Communes of the Indre-et-Loire department The following is a list of the 272 communes of the Indre-et-Loire department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025): References Communes of Indre-et-Loire {{IndreLoire-geo-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Calder
Alexander "Sandy" Calder (; July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobile (sculpture), mobiles (kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents) that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static "stabiles", and his monumental public sculptures. Calder preferred not to analyze his work, saying, "Theories may be all very well for the artist himself, but they shouldn't be broadcast to other people." Early life Alexander "Sandy" Calder was born in 1898 in Lawnton, Pennsylvania. His birthdate remains a source of confusion. According to Calder's mother, Nanette (née Lederer), Calder was born on August 22, yet his birth certificate at Philadelphia City Hall, based on a hand-written ledger, stated July 22. When Calder's family learned of the birth certificate, they asserted with certainty that city officials had made a mistake. His mother was Jewish and of German descent and his father was Calvinist and of Scottish descent, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
