Antonín Procházka (painter)

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Antonín Procházka (1932)
Muž a žena (1915)
Self-Portrait (1907)

Antonín Procházka (born June 5, 1882 in Vážany u Vyškova , Austria-Hungary ; died June 9, 1945 in Brno ) was a Czech modernist painter and graphic artist .

Life

Procházka attended grammar school in Kroměříž and studied from 1902 to 1904 at the arts and crafts school with Emanuel Dítě and then until 1906 at the Prague arts academy with Vlaho Bukovac , Hanuš Schwaiger and Max Švabinský . A journey followed that took him to Italy via Berlin, Holland, Paris and southern France. In 1907 he joined the group "Osma" (" The Eight ") initiated by Emil Filla , together with Bohumil Kubišta , Emil Artur Pittermann , Otakar Kubín , Bedřich Feigl , Max Horb and Willi Nowak . Like them, he was committed to the new art movements of Cubism and Fauvism and, like Filla, Kubin and Vincenc Beneš, was invited by Herwarth Walden to the First German Autumn Salon in Berlin in 1913 , where he showed a Cubist still life that was also shown in the catalog. From 1910 to 1921 he worked as a drawing teacher in Ostrau . In 1911 he married Linka Scheithauerová (1884–1960). From 1921 to 1924 he took a position in Neustadtl in Moravia and in 1924 became a grammar school teacher in Brno, where he became a painter. There he created a monumental work "Prométheus přináší lidstvu oheň" for the Masaryk University in 1938 . During the German occupation of Czechoslovakia , he was able to publish illustrations for a ballad collection by Karel Jaromír Erben .

From 1909 to 1911 and then again from 1923 to 1929 he was a member of the Czech artists' association Spolek výtvarných umělců Mánes ( SVU Mánes ), which was named after Josef Mánes and founded in 1887 . In 1946 he was posthumously in Czechoslovakia named "Artist of the People".

Antonína Procházky Street in Brno is named after him.

literature

  • Vojtěch Volavka: Procházka, Antonín . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 416 .
  • Albert Kutal: Antonín Procházka. Státní nakl. krásné literatury, hudby a umĕní, Prague 1959.
  • V. Kratinová: Procházka, Antonín . In: Anton Bettelheim, Oswald Redlich, Eva Obermayer-Marnach (eds.): Austrian Biographical Lexicon . tape 8 : Petračić Franjo – Ražun Matej , volume 39. H. Böhlaus Nachf., Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-7001-0615-7 , p. 291-292 ( biographien.ac.at ).
  • Antonín Procházka . Moravská Gallery, Brno 1989, ISBN 80-7027-000-4 (catalog for the exhibition April to May 1989).
  • Antonín Procházka 1882–1945. Muzeum města Brna, Moravská galerie v Brně (June 6 - September 29, 2002), Obecní dům Praha (December 11, 2002 - March 22, 2003).

Web links

Commons : Antonín Procházka  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Akademický malíř Antonín Procházka. In: Encyklopedie dějin města Brna. 2004, accessed January 29, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Linka Procházková. In: Encyklopedie dějin města Brna. 2004, accessed January 29, 2020 .
  3. ^ SVU member list ( memento from October 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Procházka, Antonín
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prochazka, Antonin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Vážany u Vyškova
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1945
Place of death Brno