Ludvík Kuba (April 16, 1863 in
Poděbrady,
Bohemia
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– November 30, 1956 in
Prague
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) was a Czech
landscape
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painter, musician, writer, professor in the
Academy of Fine Arts. He was a representative of the Late-
Impressionism
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and he collected folk traditions.
Life
Ludvík Kuba studied to play the
organ
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Musical instruments
...
and privately learnt drawing from
Bohuslav Schnirch and
Karel Liebscher. He was accepted to the Academy of Fine Arts and educated in the studio of
Max Pirner (1891–93). Then he studied at
Académie Julian
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in
Paris
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(1893–95) and the school of
Anton Ažbe
Anton Ažbe (30 May 1862 – 5 or 6 August 1905) was a Slovene realist painter and teacher of painting.
Ažbe, crippled since birth and orphaned at the age of eight, learned painting as an apprentice to Janez Wolf and at the Academies in Vienn ...
in
Munich
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(1895–1904). He then devoted his life to painting, collecting folk songs (e.g. ''Slovanstvo ve svých písních'' - "Slavonic peoples in their songs" recorded 4000 songs) and writing about folk traditions. His artistic style was highly marked with Impressionism and he mainly painted landscapes (his favourite was
South Bohemia
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), portraits (e.g.
Josef Svatopluk Machar) and
still-lifes (e.g. ''Red Begonias'').
Travels
He traveled through the Balkans, observed local Slavic cultures and wrote in detail about the local customs, history and feeling of the people. Memorable works include travels through
Macedonia
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in ''Book about Macedonia'' (1925–1927) and ''Songs from Bosnia and Herzegovina''.
Gallery
File:Pam. deska Ludvík Kuba.jpg, Memorial desk on his birthplace.
File:Relief Ludvik Kuba Zuzana Cizkova Podebrady 4153.JPG, Relief on the motif of his graphic work by contemporary Czech sculptor Zuzana Čížková unveiled in 2013 in Poděbrady.
File:Kuba Ludvik hrbitov Podebrady 8046.JPG, Bust and gravestone in the cemetery in Poděbrady.
References
Further reading
* Prahl, Roman
"Kuba, Ludvík."In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, (accessed January 23, 2012; subscription required).
External links
*
Entry for Ludvík Kubaon the
Union List of Artist Names
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1863 births
1956 deaths
People from Poděbrady
Czech artists
Members of the Macedonian Scientific Institute
Painters from Austria-Hungary