František Urban

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František Urban (photo portrait 1899)

František Urban, sometimes Franz, first names in the Geburtsmatrik František January (* 15. July 1868 in Karlin (Czech Karlin ), Kingdom of Bohemia , Austria-Hungary ; † 9. March 1919 in the Royal Vineyard ( Královské Vinohrady ), Czechoslovakia Birth. - and place of death are now districts of Prague ) was a Czech academic painter of Art Nouveau with works mainly on religious, allegorical and symbolist themes.

family

František Urban's parents were the shoemaker in Karolinenthal František Urban from Tabor and his wife Františka nee. Němec (Němcová) from Prague. He was married to the painter Marie Urbanová-Zahradnická (1868–1945) from Prague, the couple had two sons, Ivo (* June 7, 1899) and Cyrill (* June 27, 1901) and a daughter Marie (* September 8, 1899) 1902).

Training and work

After training as a porcelain painter in a factory, he studied in the studio of František Ženíšek (1849-1916) at the Prague School of Applied Arts ( Uměleckoprůmyslová škola ), today's Academy of Art, Architecture and Design Prague . After graduating, he worked with the painter Jan Dědina (1870–1955).

His main work consists of large-scale building decorations, especially in churches, some of which he designed together with his wife Marie, who made a name for herself primarily as a flower painter. He also created fairy tale illustrations and commercial graphics ; For example, he designed the Austrian one hundred kroner banknote, posters, shares and certificates. In their technical execution, his works are reminiscent of such Alfons Muchas (1860–1939), but their thematic description shows a lower degree of abstraction. Many of his works came in 1921 through the mediation of the Bishop of Königgrätz ( Hradec Králové ) Josef Doubrava (1852–1921) to the gallery of modern arts in this city.

In 1912 the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts accepted him as a corresponding member.

Individual works (selection)

  • Together with Adolf Liebscher (1857–1919) he won the competition for the design of the windows of the Church of St. Ludmilla (in Vinohrady );
  • in 1897 he decorated the Cathedral of St. Barbara in Kutna Hora ( Kutna Hora ) with Votivfenstern out;
  • in 1898 he decorated the St. Bartholomew Cathedral in Pilsen ;
  • in 1904 he painted the royal chapel of St. Wenceslas and Ladislaus in the Welschen Hof ( Vlašský dvůr ) in Kuttenberg.

Together with his wife he designed

Other places of activity were the Church of the Virgin Mary in Bezdědice (German Besdieditz ), Beraun district , and the deanery church of St. Stephan in Kouřim (German Gurim ).

and display information about the image
Frescoes in the Basilica of St. Peter and Paul in the Vineyards: Saints Notburga , Hieronymus , Genoveva , Vladimir and Maria Magdalena (1900–1903)

  • The Mother of God as a votive window in the Cathedral of St. Barbara in Kuttenberg (1897)

  • Anděl (Angel) (1902)

  • Legenda tříkrálová ( legend of the three kings) ; Illustration (1906)

  • Madona v růžích (Madonna in Roses) in the Gallery of Modern Arts in Kuttenberg (1910)

  • Mateřské štěstí ( Mother's Happiness )

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Page from the 1868 birth book of the parish St. Cyrill and Method in Karolinenthal (accessed on March 21, 2019)
  2. ↑ Page from the death register of the Catholic. Parish Königl. Weinberge, Volume 2, year 1917 ff. (Accessed on March 21, 2019)
  3. ↑ Entry in the Prague Citizens Register from 1898, rev. 1900, 1904 (accessed March 21, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Urban, František
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Urban, František Jan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech painter, poster artist, printmaker and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlín , today Prague
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1919
Place of death Vinohrady , today Prague