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Stanislav Podhrázský (10 November 1920 – 20 May 1999) was a Czech painter, sculptor and restorer. He is one of the outstanding figuralists of Czech painting of the second half of the 20th century.Primusová A, 2023, p. 11


Life

Stanislav Podhrázský was born in the family of a master bricklayer in Pejhov (now Pýchov, an integral part of
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). He trained as a room painter in the painting school of the Viennese decorator Emil Dvířka.Primusová A, 2023, p. 8 In 1936 he went to Prague and continued his apprenticeship at the Černý firm in Žižkov. He lived in the family of the legionary Novák, where he painted his first portraits; he was an amateur boxer.Klimešová M, 2013, p. 223 In 1942–1944 he attended the carving specialty of Professor František Kment at the State Central School of Housing Industry in Prague, Žižkov. In 1945 he was admitted to the
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in the studio of Prof. František Tichý. His classmates were
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, Josef Lehoučka and from 1947 also
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. Until 1949, he had the opportunity to attend lectures by Prof. Václav Nebeský, an important theoretician of Czech and French modern art, a member of the Tvrdošíjní group.
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, influenced by interwar
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and familiar with the ''
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'', brought the impulses of surrealism to his classmates as well.Klimešová M, 2013, p. 10 During his studies, Podhrázský was in contact with the Surrealists of Spořilov, including his classmate
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. He moved to Tomášská Street in the
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, where he lived until 1990. After the
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, Miloslav Chlupáč and
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were expelled from the
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. He finished his studies with the defence of his thesis ''The Great Act'' in 1950, but like
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he left the school without passing the final state examination, as he was unable to meet the new
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ideological demands. In his psychological distress he attacked a policeman and was hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital in
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, where he was submitted to electric shocks.Primusová A, 2023, p. 9 He was released from the hospital when Miloslav Chlupáč vouched for him. Between 1951 and 1953, due to mental illness, he hardly created at all and destroyed many of his
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sculptures and paintings from the time of his studies, which had too poignant a personal meaning and threatened him with their intensity.Primusová A, 2023, p. 10 Due to Podhrázský's experience with the masonry craft, Josef Wagner invited him to participate in his restoration commissions. From 1952 he worked as a
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restorer, first in
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, Slovakia (with Zdeněk Palcr and Miloslav Chlupáč), and later in
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,
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and
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(1955-1956, with Zdeněk Palcr and
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). He returned to free creative work in 1955. In 1956, he married Olga Milotová and through her employment in the advertising firm ''Rapid'', he was able to obtain foreign publications on art and painters of the
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and
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. The following year his daughter Jana (Jana Chytilová) was born, but the marriage broke up shortly afterwards. He was briefly a member of the Umělecká beseda and from 1957 a member of the ''group May 57'',Jan Kapusta Jr., Podhrázský, 1995, p. 49 with which he exhibited until its dissolution in 1964. He had his first solo exhibition (together with sculptor Zdeněk Palcr) at the Aleš Hall of Umělecká beseda in Prague (1960). In 1963, together with
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, he took part in a tour of the Artistˇs Union to the
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Hermitage and at the same time became close to Jaroslava Červená, who married him in 1968. In 1963-1973, he spent summers with other artists (V. Kiml, J. Jíra, M. Preclík) at the Nezabudický mill on the Berounka River and often visited his birthplace. Since the mid-1960s he had several solo exhibitions in Prague (1966, 1969), Brno (1966), Hradec Králové, Cheb (1969), Karlovy Vary (1971) and Litoměřice (1972). In 1968 he made his only trip to Italy (Venice, Ravenna, Florence). With the beginning of
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, he was forced to resume restoration for existential reasons and from 1974 to 1987 he worked in a team of restorers led by
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(Z. Palcr, V. Boštík, etc.) at
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.
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became important centre of unofficial culture, which included, for example, the philosopher Petr Rezek or the writer
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, whose stay in Litomyšl inspired her to write the novel ''Facade''. In 1981, the
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in
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purchased four drawings by Podhrázský on the initiative of art historians Jana Tvrzníková (married Claverie) and František Šmejkal. In the seventies and eighties he was not allowed to exhibit solo. The only exception is the exhibition at the Municipal Cultural Centre in
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, prepared by Vladimíra Eidernová-Koubová and Marie Klimešová in January 1982. The vernissage became a cultural event, attended among others by the theoretician
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and the director of the National Gallery
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. In 1990 Podhrázský had to leave his studio and apartment in the
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and moved with his wife Jaroslava to a tenement house in Vyšehrad. In the first years he still painted smaller formats there, but the cramped space did not satisfy his need for freedom, which he absolutely required to create, and from the mid-1990s he did not paint anymore.


Work

In František Tichý's studio there were strict requirements for mastery of drawing and volume according to the model, and the inclination of many of his students towards surrealism can be explained by the overpressure of aggression, which they vented on personal and social traumas from the war and the following Communist coup of 1948. The work of the young generation of Surrealists after 1945 thus had little in common with the original Surrealist programme. The earliest drawing of a nude from 1946, which stands out from the rest of the work, reveals Podhrázský's influence on Czech poetism At the beginning of his studies, Podhrázský understood drawing in an almost hypersensitive way, as a dangerous activity that could harm a person. He identified with the process of creation to the extent that he perceived it not only as a search for truth, but as a question of life and death. The introduction to surrealism had a dramatic effect on Podhrázský's hypersensitive nature and offered him creative freedom. His work from that time has an intuitive to mediumistic character and is characterized by a painterly culture. The need to create a magical inner space in his work was related to the psychophysical need of the author. The numerous references to Mannerism in Podhrázský's paintings are related to his strong perception of the genius loci in his place of residence in the Lesser Town, where he "felt the presence of the Rudolphine painters from the nearby Jánský vrch and Vlašská Street", as well as his long direct experience with the restoration of Renaissance sgraffiti at the castle in Litomyšl


Sculptures

In 1947-1948, sculptures strongly influenced by surrealism were created - ''Nun'' (plaster, destroyed) and the hallucinatory anxious vision '' Jeníček (plaster,
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), which have no parallel in the sculptural work of the time and are considered a distinctive value of Czech post-war surrealism. The sculptures ''Coat'' (1948) and ''Ashtray'' (1948) also have a Surrealist background. The sculpture ''Legs'' (1948) was created as a working model for drawing studies of girl figures. In the 1960s, when Podhrázský was influenced by the morphology of sculptures by M. Chlupáč and Z. Palcr, he briefly returned to sculpture. His ''Standing Torso'' (1964) is an assemblage of abstract elements, while ''Two Heads'' (1964), referring to the now missing sculpture ''Head'' from 1948, represents the theme of precariousness and stopping in motion. ''Torso'' from 1965 is an expression of existential distress - a delicately modelled girl figure is topped with a box as a symbol of psychological shelter, which turns the sculpture into an object. Podhrázský's own variant on seated figures by Palcr from the late 1950s (''Seated Figure'', 1968) is composed of a set of modelled boulders and relates to the work of
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. The schematically austere sculpture ''The Swordsman'' (1964, GVU Náchod) was probably created as a free model for the male figure from the painting ''The Couple'' (1965).Klimešová M, 2013, p. 142 01. Stanislav Podhrázský, Jeníček (1948), sádra, Národní galerie v Praze.jpg, ''Jeníček'' (1948), plaster,
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02. Stanislav Podhrázský, Nohy (1948), patinovaná sádra.jpg, ''Legs'' (1948), patinated plaster 04. Stanislav Podhrázský, Šermíř (1964), GVU v Náchodě.jpg, ''Fencer'' (1964), Gallery of Fine Arts Náchod 05. Stanislav Podhrázský,Torzo (1965).jpg, ''Torso'' (1965) 06. Stanislav Podhrázský, Sedící figura (1968).jpg, ''Seating Figure'' (1968)


Drawings and paintings

Stanislav Podhrázský is known primarily as a masterful draughtsman and painter. In the late 1940s, like many members of his generation ( Medek, Sekal, Fára), he was influenced by
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. This period was relatively short, because the frightening personal experience of exploring his own subconsciousness discouraged the author from further experiments. The most important works of this period are ''Head in the Mould'' (1948) and ''Imaginations of Fear'' (1949), a reflection on generational feeling. The painting is an aggressive metaphor of the terrible time after the
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Among the technical discoveries of the Surrealists, he uses grattage or
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in his work on the picture surface. Already during his studies, he created the stylized ''Nude'' (1946), which is particularly notable for its luminous modelling of charcoal drawing. His graduation work was a slightly larger-than-life charcoal drawing, ''Large Study of the Nude'' (1950). His later large-scale drawings are also mostly studies of girls' figures, faces and hands. The charcoal drawing is sometimes combined with pastel (''Drawing III'', 1956). In his drawings and paintings from the mid-1950s, when he returned to free work, he uses more formal attributes of surrealist painting - undefined space without perspective with mysterious objects, the motif of expansive body cavitiesKlimešová M, 2013, p. 27 and vegetation surrounding the girl figures (''Girl at the Table'', 1956, ''Drawing III'', 1956). The surrealistic mythologization of reality in the recurring motif of the broken jug symbolizes the transition to adulthood and the loss of innocence (''Broken Jug'', 1956). Podhrázský may have been influenced by
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's then-published play ''Rozbitý džbán'' (Orbis, Prague 1954), in which a guilty man investigates a crime he himself has committed. The motif illustrates well the hypocrisy of the communist nomenklatura of the time. Two monumental pastels with the motif of a broken jug from 1956 could have been Podhrázský's competition designs for the new building of the Biophysical Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Brno (1957). Podhrázský's paintings have a complicated content, combining personal and generally valid meanings. In the charcoal and pastel drawing ''Broken Jug'' (1956), the already broken jug at the girl's feet opens up a world of knowledge and desire, symbolized by the large orchid flower above her head and the massive vertical of a tree with thorns. Another motif of the drawings was the theme of touch and physical intimacy of figurative couples - lovers or a mother with a child on her lap (''Lovers'', 1956, ''Motherhood'', 1956). In the period from the 1950s to the mid-1960s Podhrázský produced a large number of charcoal drawings on wrapping paper, which formed a kind of sampler of motifs and often had a perfect definitive execution. Some studies suggest inspiration from the fantasy world of Hieronymus Bosch, others existential awe or erotically tinged aggression. In the drawing ''Girls with Flowers'' (1958), a woman's body undergoes a metamorphosis into a flower (or vice versa). Three drawings from this set were selected for purchase by the Centre Pompidou in Paris in the early 1980s (''Girl and Flower'', 1955, ''Screaming Girl'', before 1959, ''Legs'', late 1950s). In 1957-1959, he made a series of charcoal drawings of girls' semi-nudes. Some of these draw on his previous surrealist work and are characterised by deformations of physiognomy with hypertrophied body features and a taut, challenging physicality. Their carnality as a symbol of fertility and desire is archetypal in nature (''Nude'', 1957). The second part is sensually subtle, with elaborate hand gestures adjusting hair. They thus represent the rather lyrical emotion he was overwhelmed with in his dream. A separate element and emotional centre of the work until the 1960s were girl´s hair (''Girl combing her hair'', 1967. The disturbing motif of the averted figure (''The Listener'', 1969) refers to the imaginative context of his work.Klimešová M, 2013, p. 83 01. Stanislav Podhrázský, Imaginace strachu (1949), olej, AJG Hluboká nad Vltavou.jpg, ''Imaginations of Fear'' (1949), oil, South Bohemian Gallery in Hluboká nad Vltavou 02. Stanislav Podhrázský,Kresba I, (1955), uhel, Galerie hlavního města Prahy.jpg, ''Drawing I'', (1955), charcoal, Prague City Gallery 05. Stanislav Podhrázský, Dívky u stolu (1956), olej, GMU Hradec Králové.jpg, ''Girls at a Table'' (1956), oil, Gallery of Modern Art in Hradec Králové 03. Stanislav Podhrázský, Rozbitý džbán (1956), uhel na papíře.jpg, ''Broken Jug'' (1956), charcoal on paper 04. Stanislav Podhrázský, Dívka u stolu (1956), olej, AJG Hluboká.jpg, ''Girl at a Table'' (1956), oil, South Bohemian Gallery in Hluboká nad Vltavou His figures of girls balancing between childhood and womanhood, teetering on the edge of purity and sin, show the fragile boundary between the two faces of human existence. The style of Podhrázský's paintings recalls the early
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fresco of
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's '' Expulsion'' (1424), from which he took pathos and a similar female type. The legacy of
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comes in the form of mysterious biomorphic formations and objects transposed from elsewhere, or quotations from other artists. As a variation on Medek's painting ''Day and Night'' (1956), Podhrázský probably painted his ''Two Girls'' (1956); in the painting ''Sunday'' (1957) he set Rothmayer's chairs, known from
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's photographs, in the background; ''Girls in the Field'' (1959) repeats a motif from
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's ''
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'' (1857). In his paintings Podhrázský uses subtle shades of colour, his modelling of figures is manneristically stylized and close to some of the artists from the pre-war ''Tvrdošíjní (The Hardy)'' group, especially Rudolf Kremlička and
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. He also repeatedly returns to the theme of lovers, in which he concentrates on the sensory experience of the characters. In the 1960s, the painter made greater use of the spatula, concentrating on the structure of the painting and often completely suppressing volume and perspective (''Field'', 1961; ''Head'', 1962). Podhrázský's experimentation from the early 1960s formally departs from his previous work and approaches structural painting (''Forest Interior'', 1963) or combines individual elements in the form of collage (''Landscape'', 1960). In painting, he tries encaustic (''Field'', 1961) or achieves interesting effects by combining oil and synthetic enamel similar way as
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(''Dvojice'', 1965; ''Jana'', 1966), but soon returns to oil painting. 07. Stanislav Podhrázský, Dvě dívky na poli (1959), olej.jpg, ''Two Girls in the Field'' (1959), oil 08. Stanislav Podhrázský, Krajina (1960), olej, GVU Cheb.jpg, ''Landscape'' (1960), oil, Regional Gallery in Cheb 09. Stanislav Podhrázský, Klečící akt (1961), olej.jpg, ''Kneeling Nude'' (1961), oil 10. Stanislav Podhrázský, Hlava (1962), olej.jpg, ''Head'' (1962), oil 14. Stanislav Podhrázský, Uzel (1964), olej, Galerie umění Karlovy Vary.jpg, ''Knot'' (1964), oil, Gallery of Modern Art in Hradec Králové In 1963–1964 he repeatedly returned to the figure of a woman lying in the landscape. In this group of paintings, he captures archetypal ideas of the mother - the earth, which represents a link to the earthly and the supra-earthly, and through artistic means points to the depths of the nature of human existence (''Reclining nude'', 1964). The painting ''Reclining II'' (1964) is a direct paraphrase of a Romanesque relief by
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(1130), depicting a reclining
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. In the relaxed atmosphere of the late 1960s, Podhrázský draws a series of nudes and amorous couples, but his erotic themes are not explicit and maintain chastity (''Undressing'', 1970). Podhrázský was virtually untouched by the wave of
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of the first half of the 1960s, and he made his mark on the Czech scene as a solitaire artist with his adherence to the classical conception of beauty and the emotional intensity of
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. The central theme of his paintings in the 1970s remained the human being, often his closest family (''Jarmila'', 1960, ''Jana with Jugs'', 1965). He placed his figures in abstract landscapes lacking depth, which are themselves a metaphor for the curves of the human body or the vegetation unfolding into the depths of human eroticism (''Lovers'', 1969). In the 1970s and 1980s, animals often appear in the paintings. Some of the motifs of the paintings are directly related to Podhrázský's drawings for the facade of the
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(''Girl with a Horse'', 1976). 13. Stanislav Podhrázský, Ležící akt (1964), olej, email, Národní galerie v Praze.jpg, ''Reclining nude'' (1964), oil, enamel,
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15. Stanislav Podhrázský, Jana (1966), olej.jpg, ''Jana'' (1966), oil 18. Stanislav Podhrázský, Posluchačka (1969), olej.jpg, ''Listener'' (1969), oil 16. Stanislav Podhrázský,Pes Filip (1966), olej, Národní galerie v Praze.jpg, ''Filip the dog'' (1966), oil,
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20. Stanislav Podhrázský, Kočka žrout (1968), olej.jpg, ''Cat glutton'' (1968), oil 19. Stanislav Podhrázský, Džbán (1971).jpg, ''Jug'' (1971) 07. Stanislav Podhrázský, Džbán.jpg, ''Jug''


Restoration, frescoes

In the 1950s, restoration of sgraffito plasterwork in Slovakia and southern Bohemia was a means of livelihood for Podhrázský. Here he applied his craftsmanship acquired at the painting school of the Vienna decorator E. Dvířka and the masonry experience gained from his father. In 1973 he repaired the main portal and the riding hall of
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with Zdeněk Palcr. The following year the conservationists decided to completely renovate the
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façades of the castle. This required the completion of the missing and damaged
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and offered Podhrázský the opportunity to create entirely new large-scale drawings. He was tempted to master vast areas, the largest of which measured 8 × 3.5 m. He confirmed in an interview, that he personally gained a lot from this work and considered the fine ground of sgraffito plaster ideal for drawing. Here he applied his knowledge of
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as well as his own free invention. Podhrázský's work includes, for example, the entire reconstructed fabion cornice with
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s, which was rebuilt after the baroque construction interventions were removed, as well as more than 90% of the mirror motifs of the newly created sgraffito patterns. The reconstructed Litomyšl Castle was registered as a
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. File:Stanislav Podhrázský, Amor, sgrafito, Zámek Litomyšl.jpg, ''Amor'', sgrafitto, Litomyšl Castle File:Stanislav Podhrázský, luneta II, sgrafito, Zámek Litomyšl.jpg, Lunette II, sgrafitto, Litomyšl Castle File:Stanislav Podhrázský, psaníčkové sgrafito IV, Zámek Litomyšl.jpg, Sgraffito pattern IV, Litomyšl Castle File:Stanislav Podhrázský, psaníčkové sgrafito V, Zámek Litomyšl.jpg, Sgraffito pattern V, Litomyšl Castle In 1977, Podhrázský and architect V. Pala realized fresco in the main hall of the mourning hall in
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. He created a series of stylized human faces on an area of 3 × 15 m. Other sgraffito designs (Le Murate, Florence, Old Town Hall, Prague) for arch. V. Rudiš were not realized.


Amateur films

Podhrázský was interested in film at the turn of the 1940s and 1950s, and together with Miloslav Chlupáč made slapstick films inspired by
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. His first wife Olga Milotová and his classmate Josef Lehoučka starred in the film "Dear of the Seven Robbers". Other grotesques were filmed during winter stays in a cottage on Liščí hora in the
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. They ironically inverted the tragedy of the 1950s in short situational scenes thematizing the struggle for bare life, with elements of black humour. The daughter of Stanislav Podhrázský and Olga Milotová, Jana Chytilová, is a director who professionally focuses on visual arts in her television work.


Representation in collections

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* Prague City Gallery * Czech Museum of Fine Arts in Prague (currently Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region in
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) * Gallery of Modern Art in
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* South Bohemian Gallery in
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* Gallery of Art
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* Gallery of Modern Art in
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* East Bohemian Gallery in
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* Klatovy-Klenová Gallery * Regional Gallery in
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* Museum of Art
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* private collections at home and abroad


Exhibitions (selection)


Author's

* 1969 Paintings and drawings,
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* 1969 Regional Gallery, Hradec Králové, State Gallery of Fine Arts in Cheb * 1971 Paintings, drawings, Karlovy Vary Art Gallery * 1972 North Bohemian Gallery of Fine Arts in Litoměřice * 1982 Paintings - drawings, Municipal Cultural Centre, Dobříš * 1991 Selected Works, Nová síň Gallery, Prague * 1995 State Gallery of Fine Arts in Náchod, Gallery of Modern Art in Roudnice nad Labem * 2001 Stanislav Podhrázský: 1920-1999,
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, ČMVU, Exhibition Hall Husova 19-21, Prague * 2013/2014 Restless Beauty, House at the Stone Bell, Prague City Gallery * 2023/2024 Stanislav Podhrázský and Friends, Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region in Kutná HoraStanislav Podhrázský and Friends, Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region in Kutná Hora
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Collective

* 1957 ''Young Art / Creative Group Máj 57'', Municipal House, Prague * 1958/59 ''Art of Young Artists of Czechoslovakia 1958. Paintings and sculptures'', Prague Castle Riding Hall, Brno House of Arts * 1961 ''Máj Creative Group'',
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* 1964 ''Máj Creative Group'', Nová síň Gallery, Prague * 1965 5th Biennale Internazionale d'Arte Contemporanea della Repubblica di San Marino * 1965 ''Object'',
Václav Špála Gallery The Václav Špála Gallery (Czech: Galerie Václava Špály) is a Prague gallery of mostly contemporary art. It is located at no. 59/30 Národní třída, in the New Town of Prague (Praha 1 – Nové Město). The gallery holds exhibitions particu ...
, Prague * 1965 ''Małarstwo a rzeźba z Pragi'',
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* 1966 ''Current Tendencies of Czech Art. Paintings, sculptures, graphics'', Prague * 1967 ''Mostra d'arte contemporanea cecoslovacca'', Castello del Valentino,
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* 1967 ''Fantasy Aspects of Contemporary Czech Art'', Regional Gallery of the Highlands in Jihlava, Václav Špála Gallery, Prague * 1967 ''Painting 67. National Exhibition of Contemporary Painting'', Moravian Museum of Arts and Crafts,
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 ...
* 1968 ''The Beginnings of a Generation'',
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, Prague * 1968 ''300 Painters, Sculptors, Graphic Artists of 5 Generations for 50 Years of the Republic'', Prague * 1969 ''Tschechische Malerei des 20. Jahrhunderts'', Ausstellungsräume Berlin 12,
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* 1969 ''Image 69. National Exhibition of Contemporary Painting'', Moravian Museum of Decorative Arts, Brno * 1978 ''Pittura céca contemporanea'', Palazzo del Monte,
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* 1980 ''Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Tschechoslowakei'', Wessenberghaus,
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* 1983 ''Dessins tchèques du 20e siècle'', Centre George Pompidou,
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* 1989 ''Restoration Art 1948-1988'', Mánes, Prague * 1992 ''Czech Fine Art 1960-1990'', Central Bohemian Gallery, Exhibition Halls, Prague * 1994 ''Focal Points of Rebirth'', Municipal Library, Prague * 1996 ''Art when time stood still, Czech Art Scene 1969-1985'', Prague, Brno, Cheb * 1999/2000 ''Art of Accelerated Time. Czech Art Scene 1958 - 1968'', Prague, Cheb * 2000/2001 ''100 + 1 art works of the Twentieth Century'', House of the Black Mother of God, Prague * 2004/06 ''The sixties from the collection of the Zlatá husa Gallery in Prague'', Brno House of Arts, Karlovy Vary Art Gallery * 2007 ''Máj 57 Group'', Prague Castle, Imperial Stables, Prague * 2010 ''Years in Days. Czech Art 1945-1957'', Municipal Library, Prague * 2012/2013 ''Verführung Freiheit: Kunst in Europa seit 1945'', Deutsches Historisches Museum,
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* 2013 ''The Desire For Freedom: Arte in Europa dal 1945 (XXX mostra del Consiglio d’Europa)'', Palazzo Reale,
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* 2016/2017 ''Facing the Future: Art in Europe 1945-68'', BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Art / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten / Centre for Fine Arts,
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* 2018 ''The Anatomy of a Leap into the Void: The Year 1968 and Art in Czechoslovakia'', exhibition hall Masné krámy,
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* 2021 ''Confrontation 1960–1970'', Moderna Gallery,
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* 2024 Heptameron: Surrealism and the Dream of the Renaissance, South Bohemian Gallery in
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References


Sources


Monographs

* Jan Kříž, Helena Zemanová: ''Stanislav Podhrázský 1920-1999'', Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague 2001, * Marie Klimešová (ed.), ''Stanislav Podhrázský'', Arbor vitae, Řevnice 2013, . * Adriana Primusová, Stanislav Podhrázský a přátelé / and Friends, GASK Kutná Hora 2023,


Catalogues (selection)

* ''Stanislav Podhrázský'', text by Jan Kříž, SČVU, Praha 1966 * ''Stanislav Podhrázský : paintings from 1962-66', text by Alena Konečná, Czech Fine Arts Fund, Brno 1966 * ''Stanislav Podhrázský'', text by Jaromír Zemina, Czech artists union, Prague 1969 * ''Stanislav Podhrázský: paintings, drawings'', text Bohumír Mráz, Karlovy Vary Art Gallery 1971 * ''Stanislav Podhrázský'', text Jaromír Zemina, GVU Litoměřice 1972 * ''Stanislav Podhrázský'': paintings - drawings, Dobříš, text Vladimíra Eidernová, Marie A. Černá, Dílo - ČFVU, Prague 1982 * ''Stanislav Podhrázský : selections from his works'', text by Jan Kříž, Nová síň, Prague 1991 * ''Stanislav Podhrázský'', text by Jan Kapusta Jr, State Gallery in Náchod 1995,


General sources

* ''Tvůrčí skupina Máj'', Galerie Nová síň, Praha 1964 * ''Vª biennale internazionale d´arte contemporanea della Repubblica di San Marino'', San Marino 1965 * ''Mostra d'arte contemporanea cecoslovacca'', Torino 1967 * Němec J, ''Współczesna plastyka z Pragi'', Sopoty 1967 * ''300 Painters, Sculptors, Graphic Artists of 5 Generations for 50 Years of the Republic'', Union of Czechoslovak Visual Artists, Prague 1968 * ''Künstlergruppe arche mit 10 Malern aus Prag'', Hameln, Dortmund 1968 * Dvořák J, Kohoutek J, ''Tschechische Malerei des 20. Jahrhunderts'', Ausstellungsräume Berlin 12, Berlín 1969 * Mrázová M, ''Pittura céca contemporanea'', Padova 1978 * Mrázová M, Leiner U, ''Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Tschechoslowakei'', Wessenberghaus, Konstanz 1980 * Hermansdorfer M, Ojrzyńska J, ''Wspołczesna sztuka czeska. Kolekcja Janiny Ojrzyńskiej'', Muzeum Narodowe we Wrocławiu 1984 * ''Šedá cihla : 78/1985'', Jazzová sekce, Praha 1985 * Hlobil I et al., ''Restaurátorské umění / Restoration art 1948-1988'', Mánes, Prague 1989 * Chalupecký J, ''Nové umění v Čechách / New Art in Bohemia'', H&H, Ars pictura, vol. 1., Jinočany 1994, * Neumann I, Potůčková A (eds.), ''Umění zastaveného času / Art when time stood still, Česká výtvarná scéna 1969–1985'', cat. 268 p., cs., en., ČMVU, Prague 1996, * Potůčková A (ed.), ''Umění zrychleného času, Česká výtvarná scéna 1958–1968 / The Art of Accelerated Time, Czech Art Scene 1958-1968'', cat. 147 p., cs., en., ČMVU Prague 1999, * Juříková M, Železný V, ''Šedesátá / The sixties'', 414 p., cs, en, Zlatá husa Gallery, Prague 2004, * Klimešová M, Primusová A, ''The Máj 57 Group. Efforts for artistic freedom at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s'', Prague Castle Administration, Prague 2007, * Klimešová M, ''Years in Days : Czech Art 1945-1957'', Arbor vitae Řevnice, Prague City Gallery 2010, * Musilová H, Vachtová L, ''Anatomie skoku do prázdna / The Anatomy of a Leap into the Void (Rok 1968 a výtvarné umění v Československu / The Year 1968 and Art in Czechoslovakia)'', West Bohemian Gallery, Plzeň 2018,


Encyclopedias

* Anděla Horová (ed), The New Czech Encyclopedia of Fine Arts N-Z, 558 s., Academia, publishing house of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic 1995, * Dictionary of Czech and Slovak Visual Artists 1950-2003 (XI. Pau - Pop), Chagall Art Centre, Ostrava 2003


External links


Information system abART: Stanislav Podhrázský

Sophistica Gallery: Stanislav Podhrázský

Podhrázský painted beauty that disturbs, Czech TV 24, 2013-11-12

GHMP, 2013

Carnality and sensual experience dominate the exhibition of Stanislav Podhrázský's work Czech Radio Vltava 2013

Litomyšl Castle - cardboards by Stanislav Podhrázský at the exhibition "Restless Beauty" at the Prague City Gallery 2013

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(interview by V. Koubová with S. Podhrázský), Revolver Revue 24, 1993 {{DEFAULTSORT:Podhrazsky Stanislav 1920 births 1999 deaths 20th-century Czech painters 20th-century Czech sculptors People from Nová Včelnice