Bohumil Kubišta

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Bohumil Kubišta, 1911

Bohumil Kubišta (born August 21, 1884 in Wltschkowitz , Austria-Hungary , † November 27, 1918 in Prague ) was a Bohemian painter.

Life

After attending secondary school between 1896 and 1903, he attended the arts and crafts school in Prague until 1905 . After studying in Florence in 1906 and 1907, he returned to Prague. He took part in an exhibition there for the first time and joined the group "Osma" ("The Eight"). A stay in Paris in 1910 was followed by preparations for an exhibition by the group of “Independents” (Skupina) in Prague. In 1911 the members of the Brücke (artist group) Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Otto Mueller visited Bohumil Kubišta in Prague. In August of the same year, Kubišta joined the bridge and took part in the exhibition of the New Secession in Berlin in 1911 and that of the Sonderbund in Cologne in 1912 . During the First World War he served in Pula , Vienna , Jaroměř , Ljubljana and Slovakia, among others . Kubišta died as a result of the Spanish flu .

photos

  • The hypnotist

  • Self-Portrait (1908)

  • The doppelganger (1911)

  • Epileptic Woman (1912)

  • Soldier (1912)

  • Promenade in the Rieger Gardens

  • Kiss of Death (1912)

  • Self-Portrait with Crossed Arms (1904–05)

  • The resurrection of Lazarus

  • View of the cement factory in Braník

  • Walk on the Arno

  • Jan Zrzavý (1912)

literature

  • Kratinová:  Kubišta Bohumil. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 313.
  • Gerd Presler : The bridge . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2007. ISBN 978-3-499-50642-0
  • Mahulena Nešlehová: Bohumil Kubišta . Odeon, Prague 1984. (cs)
  • Krisztina Passuth : Meeting places of the avant-garde East Central Europe 1907 - 1930 . From the Hungarian: Anikó Harmath. Budapest: Balassi 2003 (Hungarian 1998)
  • Jörg Deuter: Prague Spring twice. About an exhibition that was not allowed, and about Bohumil Kubišta and the painters of the “Bridge” . Verlag Uwe Laugwitz, Buchholz 2019, ISBN 978-3-933077-60-8

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personal data
SURNAME Kubišta, Bohumil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION bohemian painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Wltschkowitz , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1918
Place of death Prague