František Kaván

František Kaván

Umrlčí cesta , 1895-1896

Harvest , OIL / Lw, 1922

František Kaván (born September 10, 1866 in Víchovská Lhota near Jilemnice , † December 16, 1941 in Libuň ) was a Czech painter.

Life

He studied from 1890 to 1895 in the landscape class of the Prague Academy . Along with Otakar Lebeda and Antonín Slavíček , he was one of the most important students of Julius Mařák , who had re-established Max Haushofer's landscape class , which had been closed since 1866, and directed it until his death in 1899.

An exhibition in Prague in 1892 with works by Antonín Chittussi , who died in 1891, made a deep impression on Kaván and, above all, shaped him. When he turned to symbolism , he was criticized by his teacher, who called his art "black painting". He left the academy in 1895 and remained associated with this style, including in his literary work, until 1899.

In 1900 he received a gold medal for his cloud pictures of 1894 at the Paris World Exhibition . After his expressive, symbolist art phase, he returned to pure landscape painting with realistic impressions around 1900, which he remained true to until his death in 1941. Best known are his winter pictures.

From 1922 to 1925 he lived in Libuň near Jičín . He stayed in Svobodné Harmy until 1930 and then returned to Libuň, where he stayed until the end of his life.

literature

• Kaván František. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 276. (PDF; 197 kB)
• Naděžda Blažíčková-Horová (Ed.): Julius Mařák a jeho žáci. = Julius Mařák and his pupils. Národni Gallery, Prague 1999, ISBN 80-7035206-X .

Web links

Commons : František Kaván  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about František Kaván in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature and other media by and about František Kaván in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic