Emila Medková

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Emila Medková , née Emila Tláskalová (born November 19, 1928 , † September 19, 1985 in Prague ) was a Czech photographer, one of the most important representatives of Czech art photography in the second half of the 20th century.

Life

Medková was born in Ústí nad Orlicí . The family moved to Prague , where Emila attended the class of landscape photographer Josef Ehm in 1942 at a special photography school in the Smíchov district of Prague . She then worked as a photographer at the Institute for Labor.

Her artistic work is directly linked to surrealism . In the beginning she joined a group of young artists around Karel Teige . From 1947 to 1951 she created collections of staged photographs with Mikuláš Medek . She married him on September 12, 1951. From the early 1950s onward, she focused on creating several loosely overlapping thematic cycles that ran through her entire career until her death.

At the turn of the 1950s and 1960s she became the leading exponent of Czech informal art. While she found inspiration primarily in Prague, she also created extensive photographic cycles of Paris (1966) and Italy (1967). For her livelihood, Medková worked from 1954 as the head of the photo laboratory at the Research Institute for Occupational Safety of the State Trade Union Federation, from 1963 at the Psychological Institute of Charles University . She participated in the Czech surrealist movement. In 1960 she had her first solo exhibition, after which her photographs were shown in other national and international exhibitions.

After the death of her husband in 1974, she suffered a stroke and was partially paralyzed. She died in Prague in 1985.

literature

  • Jan Kříž: Emila Medková , Prague 1965
  • Alena Nádvorníková, Aleš Kuneš: Emila Medková, 1928-1985 , Prague 1995
  • Lenka Bydžovská, Karel Srp: Emila Medková , Kant Verlag, Prague 2001

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rebecca Herlemann: Emila Medková (short biography), in: Ingird Pfeiffer (Ed.): Fantastische Frauen - Surreal Welten from Meret Oppenheim to Frida Kahlo , catalog for the exhibition in the Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt), Hirner Verlag, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-7774-3413-1 , p. 393
personal data
SURNAME Medková, Emila
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tláskalová, Emila
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech photographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1928
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1985
Place of death Prague