Devětsil
Devětsil (German butterbur , literally translated Nine forces ) was a group of Czech avant-garde artists of the 1920 's. It was founded in Prague in 1920 , a second group existed in Brno from 1923 . The members devoted themselves to proletarian art and so-called magical realism ; from 1923 they became involved in poetism . The group took part in the organization of artistic life in Bohemia and Moravia . The Prague Association regularly published Revue Devětsilu - ReD ( Revue des Devětsil ), and the Brno group Pásmo ( The Band ). In addition, some collections of poetic and literary works were published and exhibitions were organized.
A special event was the Manifesto of Seven , formulated in 1929 , which was signed by seven members of the association (and incidentally at the same time founding members of the Communist Party ) and which sharply opposed the Bolshevization of the party. She was expelled from the party soon after.
The original name was US Devětsil or Umělecký Svaz Devětsil ( Artistic Association Devětsil ), was changed several times and read from 1925 Svaz moderní kultury Devětsil ( Association of modern culture Devětsil ). The Brno group was dissolved in 1927, the Prague group in 1930.
Members
Founding members
Leaders
Architects
- Jaroslav Fragner
- Jan Gillar
- Josef Havlíček
- Karel Honzík
- Josef Chochol
- Jaromír Krejcar
- Evžen Linhart
- Pavel Smetana
poet
Actor (theater)
- Milča Mayerová
- Jiří Voskovec was excluded again in 1924 because of his participation in the film "Pohádka máje"
- Jan Werich
Musician
Directors
writer
Artist
photographer
Critics, theorists, scientists
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manifest sedmi (original document), www.ucl.cas.cz (PDF file; 421 kB), Czech, accessed on April 28, 2010
- ^ Z. Kárník: České země v éře První republiky (1918-1938), Libri, Prague 2003, cited. according to: Adéla Křížová: Časopis Levá fronta v historickém kontextu počátku 30.let , diploma thesis at the University of Budweis, Budweis 2011, page 12
literature
- Rostislav Švácha : Devětsil: Czech avant-garde art, architecture and design of the 1920s and 30s . Design Museum, London; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford 1990
- Walter Schamschula : The Czech literature: Aufbruch des Internationalismus , in: New manual of literary studies. Volume 20: Between the World Wars . Wiesbaden: Akad. Verl.-Ges. Athenaion 1983, pp. 540-547