Jan Dědina
Jan Dědina, in French also Jean Dedina or Dédina (baptismal name Jan Nepomuk , born September 1, 1870 in Straky in Central Bohemia (German Strack ), Kingdom of Bohemia , Austria-Hungary ; † January 14, 1955 in Tatobity (German Tatobit ), Semil district , Czechoslovakia ) was a Czech painter and magazine illustrator who temporarily worked in Paris .
life and work
Jan Dědina grew up as the son of a farmer of the same name and his wife Kateřina geb. Selinek (Selinková) in a village environment near Nymburk (German Neuchâtel an der Elbe ) in Central Bohemia. He received his artistic training at the Prague School of Applied Arts (Uměleckoprůmyslová škola) and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague . There he was a student of František Ženíšek and Maxmilián Pirner . He also studied sculpture with Josef Václav Myslbek .
After graduating, he was drafted into the Austrian army , from which he deserted in 1895 . He went to his brother Václav (1872–1945) in Paris, who was also a visual artist and was naturalized in France in 1913 under the name Venceslas Dédina , and worked for several years in the artistic field, a. a. also as an illustrator for the magazine Le Monde illustré , which he provided with genre images . He collaborated in Paris with Luděk Marold or Alfons Mucha , and he was involved in decorating the ceilings of the Petit Palais near the Champs-Élysées and the Comédie-Française . Some of his works have been acquired by the French state and are in the Louvre .
Due to an amnesty , Dědina was able to return to Bohemia in 1909. He first settled in Nymburk, became a member of the Association of Visual Artists (Jednota umělců výtvarných) and then worked mainly in Prague. But he always stayed in Paris; in February 1933 he had an exhibition in the Paris gallery of the daily newspaper Le Journal . After an attack by the Gestapo during the protectorate in his Prague apartment and the death of his wife Jeanne Marie Anceaux in 1943, he moved permanently to Tatobity in the low mountain range of the "Bohemian Paradise" ( Český ráj ) , where he also owned a studio. The surroundings there inspired many of his late landscape paintings. In his portraits, religious and historical scenes, he stylistically followed his contemporaries, the leading representatives of academic and historicist painting in Europe as well as old masters.
Others
The composer, ecologist and philosopher Ivo Gabriel Dědina - also pseudonym Yvo Gabriel Dédina d'Anceaux - (born September 28, 1922 in Prague; † November 12, 1999 in Amsterdam ) is a son of the Dědina-Anceaux couple. Jan Dědina is buried in Nymburk. His work is commemorated in the area monument "Malířova zahrada" in Tatobity.
literature
- Prokop Toman: Nový slovník československých výtvarných umělců. 3rd edition, Volume 1, Praha: Rudolf Ryšavý, 1947, p. 153
- Josef Pýcha: Jan Dědina a jeho rodné [Jan Dědina and his family]. Straky, Polabí 1970, No. 3-4, p. 43
- Pavel Dolanský: Neznámý Jan Dědina [The Unknown Jan Dědina]. In: Lidová demokracie , September 2nd. 1980, p. 5
Web links
- Jan Dědina in the database of the Středočeská vědecká knihovna v Kladně [Central Bohemian Academic Library in Kladno] (Czech; accessed on March 23, 2019)
- Jan Dědina in the artist file ART + (Czech; accessed on March 23, 2019)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the birth and baptismal register of the parish Všejany (accessed on March 23, 2019)
- ↑ Memorial plaque at the place of birth with a biography (Czech, accessed March 23, 2019)
- ↑ Memorial plaque at the house where he died in Amsterdam (accessed March 23, 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dědina, Jan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dedina, Jean (French version) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech painter and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Straky , Central Bohemia |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 14, 1955 |
| Place of death | Tatobity, Okres Semily |