The Umělecká beseda was a Czech artists' forum, bringing together creative artists in literature, music and fine art. First founded in 1863, it formed an important part of Czech cultural life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Under Communism in the early 1950s it fell from favour, and it was closed in 1972. It was refounded in 1990, though without the return of previously-confiscated property. The

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now occupies the building that the association had purpose-built in 1925.

Founding members

Bedřich Smetana Bedřich Smetana ( , ; 2 March 1824 – 12 May 1884) was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his people's aspirations to a cultural and political "revival." He has been regarded i ...

– composer : Josef Manes – painter :

Eduard Herold Jan Eduard Herold (16 September 1820, Prague – 5 August 1895, Prague) was a Czech painter, illustrator, art critic and writer. Biography He was the eldest of three children born to Johann Christian Herold (?-1837), an impoverished actor in ...

– painter and writer :

Mikoláš Aleš Mikoláš Aleš (18 November 1852 – 10 July 1913) was a Czech painter. Aleš is estimated to have had over 5,000 published pictures; he painted for everything from magazines to playing cards to textbooks. His paintings were not publicize ...

– painter :

Jan Evangelista Purkyně Jan Evangelista Purkyně (; also written Johann Evangelist Purkinje) (17 or 18 December 1787 – 28 July 1869) was a Czech anatomist and physiologist. In 1839, he coined the term ''protoplasm'' for the fluid substance of a cell. He was one of th ...

– scientist and artist : Karel Jaromír Erben – poet and folklorist : Vítězslav Hálek – poet :

Karel Purkyně Karel Purkyně (15 March 1834, Wrocław – 5 April 1868, Prague) was a painter in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was one of the most prominent proponents of Realism (visual arts), realism in Czech art in the second half of the 19th century. B ...

– painter : Josef Bohuslav Foerster – composer Other members have included the painter and printmaker

Jana Budíková Jana Budíková (born 12 June 1946) is a Czech painter and printmaker. Budíková graduated from the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where she studied from 1965 until 1971. She has been a member of the groups Uměleck ...

Sources

Literature

* ''V umění volnost'' (Kapitoly z dějin Umělecké besedy), 2003, Matys Rudolf, 356 s., Academia, Praha, * ''Umělecká beseda 1863–2003'', 2003, Petrová Eva, 163 s., GHMP, Praha, * ''Padesát let Umělecké besedy 1863–1913'', 1913, 320 s., vyd. Umělecká beseda, Praha, Besední 3 * ''Lexikon malířství a grafiky'',

External links

Oficiální stránky Umělecké besedy

Informační systém abART: Umělecká beseda

ČRO Vltava ke 150. výročí založení UB

* ttp://galeriemost.cz/?p=392 Členská výstava Most 2007
UB roku 2003 (140. výročí založení)

UB roku 2003, Český rozhlas

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