Jan Kotík
Jan Kotík (born January 4, 1916 in Turnov , † March 23, 2002 in Berlin ) was a Czech painter, he also worked on collages and various objects.
Life
Kotík, son of the Czech painter Pravoslav Kotík , came to Prague in 1934, where he studied at the Academy of Applied Arts from 1936 to 1941 . At the world exhibition in Paris in 1937 he won a bronze medal. In 1939 a volume of prints was published, which dealt with the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis, under the title The Testament of Burning Country . He was then one of the founders of the avant-garde group 42 .
In the post-war period, which was dominated by Stalinism, Kotík was unable to publish his works, and he turned to industrial design, glass art and bookbinding. He also published the opposition magazine Tvář , in which he always saw his art concept as a counterpart to socialist realism . At the world exhibition Expo 58 in Brussels in 1958, he won a silver medal with a glass sculpture.
After receiving a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service , Kotík stayed in Berlin in 1970, where he lived from then on. In 1979 the Neue Berliner Kunstverein organized an exhibition of his works in the orangery of Charlottenburg Palace under the title Jan Kotik: Work 1970–1979 . Further solo exhibitions have taken place a. at the State University of New York (1983), the Folkwang Museum , Essen (1986) and the Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin (1992), a commemorative exhibition in 2002 at the National Gallery in Prague .
Jan Kotík was a member of the German Association of Artists and since 1992 a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts . In 1997 he received the Fred Thieler Prize for Painting. Kotík was married to the translator Ruth Kotíková, their son Petr Kotík is a composer and Martin Kotík is an architect.
Fonts and catalogs (selection)
- Seeing and thinking. 11., Jan Kotik: “Transfer”, Line - Object - Color, September 23, 2000 to January 21, 2001. Berlin, Akademie der Künste 2000. Also: Seeing and Thinking 10-16: Video documentation of 23 artist talks in the exhibition series (1997 -2004). In it No. 11 Jan Kotik. Akademie der Künste Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-88331-090-5 (3 DVDs).
- Jirí Machalický (Ed.): Jan Kotík: 1936–1996, kresby, koláze, grafické listy, objekty, obrazy - drawings, collages, graphics, paintings, objects. Národní Gallery, Praha 1996, ISBN 80-7035-114-4 (exhibition catalog: Praha, Grafická Sbírka Národní Gallery August - September 1996; Brno, Dům Umení Mesta Brna January - March 1997).
Web links
- Literature by and about Jan Kotík in the catalog of the German National Library
- Art of the Print - Jan Kotík (biography and works)
- Art Facts - Jan Kotík
- Jiri Svestka Gallery - Jan Kotik: Prints, works on paper and paintings from 1940-70
- Jan Kotík on kunstaspekte.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jan Kotik: The contemporary Czech glass cutting art. In: Bildende Kunst, Berlin, issue 10.1956, pp. 553–559.
- ^ Hermann Exner: glasses by Jan Kotik. In: Fine arts. Berlin, No. 12, 1957, pp. 841-842.
- ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Kotik, Jan ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. (accessed on September 24, 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kotík, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 4, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Turnov |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 23, 2002 |
| Place of death | Berlin |