Georg Jilovsky

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Georg Jilovsky ( Czech : Jiří Jílovský) (born March 16, 1884 in Prague ; † February 16, 1958 there ) was a Czech graphic designer and artist. Jilovsky was the son of the Prague businessman Josef Jilovsky (* 1852) and his wife Julie, née Heller (* 1863). His parents were bilingual and Jilovsky later used both forms of his name.

Life

Jilovsky grew up in Prague and attended the Czech primary school there , and later the German secondary school on Mikulandská Street. After finishing school, he studied at the Prague School of Applied Arts from 1900 to 1904 and then at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts until 1907 . 1907/1908 he stayed in Munich and then lived again in Prague, but made numerous trips through Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland. 1933 Jilovsky was for his designs the scenery for the opera Švanda the Bagpiper by Jaromir Weinberger for the New German Theater Award in Prague with the Czech National Prize.

After the National Socialist occupation of Prague, Jilovsky was arrested in September 1943 for being Jewish . In 1941 he was imprisoned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp , transferred to Auschwitz in 1944 and finally in April to the Schlier subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp . There he survived until the end of the Second World War . Then he returned to Prague.

Jilovsky was forced to participate in Aktion Bernhard in the concentration camp .

Works

As a graphic artist, Jilovsky mainly made bookplates. As a painter, he devoted himself to landscape painting. The Jewish Museum Prague honored his life's work in 2005 with a special exhibition.

  • 10 ex-libris etchings , Pasing near Munich: O. Kern & Cie, 1921

literature

  • Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin (ed.): Art in Auschwitz 1940-1945 (exhibition catalog), Bramsche 2005, ISBN 3-89946-051-0 (paperback) ISBN 3-89946-052-9 (hardcover)
  • Arno Pařík: The Prague painter and graphic artist Georg Jilovsky , in: Deutsche Exlibris-Gesellschaft (Ed.), DEG Yearbook 2004, Frankfurt am Main, 2004, p. 47 ff.
  • Jürgen Herrlein : Prague Jewish academics as members of the student associations “Corps Austria” and the “Speech and Reading Hall for German Students in Prague”. Their exlibris and club graphics by Emil Orlik (1870-1932) and Georg Jilovsky (1884-1958) ; in: Österreichisches Jahrbuch für Exlibris und Arbeitsgraphik, Vol. 66, 2009–2010, pp. 27–35 ISBN 978-3-9500800-5-6

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Prague State Archives, police registration form for parents
  2. ↑ Jiří Jílovský: Pražský grafik a malíř, short biography of the Jewish Museum in Prague, online: jewishmuseum.cz ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Czech, accessed January 29, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jewishmuseum.cz
  3. ↑ Information from the museum (with pictures) in English ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jewishmuseum.cz

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personal data
SURNAME Jilovsky, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jílovský, Jiří
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech painter and printmaker
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1958
Place of death Prague