Jan Preisler
Jan Preisler (born February 17, 1872 in Königshof , Austria-Hungary , † April 27, 1918 in Prague ) was a Czech painter and graphic artist.
Life
Jan Preisler's father lived with the family in Popowitz , a district of Königshof, and worked as an iron caster in Königshof. After attending the city school in Karlshütten and then the community school in Beraun , he studied decorative painting from 1887 at the Prague School of Applied Arts under František Ženíšek ( en ) . He shared a studio with Karel Špillar . From 1894 Preisler was active in the Prague Art Association Mánes and worked on the association magazine Volné směry . In 1908, 1910, 1916 and 1918 he was chairman of the art association.
In 1902, Preisler went on a study trip to Italy with his friend Antonín Hudeček . On the way back he met Auguste Rodin in Vienna . In 1903 he became an honorary lecturer in nude painting at the Prague School of Applied Arts . Edvard Munch's exhibition in Prague in 1905 was also a success thanks to Preisler's commitment . In 1906 in Paris he was impressed by the work of Paul Gauguin . From 1908 Preisler worked in the group "Osma" ("The Eight"), especially with Bohumil Kubišta , Vincenc Beneš and Zdeněk Kratochvíl ( cs ). In March 1909, the sculptor Émile-Antoine Bourdelle visited Preisler in his studio in Prague. From 1913 to 1918 Preisler worked as a professor at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts . One of his students was Josef Šíma .
Jan Preisler married Božena Pallas in 1914, who came from a Prague artisan family. The couple had a son and a daughter - Jan and Božena.
Preisler died of pneumonia . He was buried in the Königshofer Friedhof.
style
Preisler initially oriented himself towards neo-romanticism , but then turned to symbolism . Towards the end of the 1890s, he took Puvis de Chavannes , Hans von Marées , Fernand Khnopff , Franz von Stuck and Arnold Böcklin as his yardstick. As a book designer, he followed the Art Nouveau style à la Alfons Mucha and Vojtěch Preissig . He was also inspired by poets and writers such as Antonín Sova , Mark Twain , Karel Hlaváček , Julius Zeyer , Vitezslav Nezval, and composers such as Josef Suk and Otakar Ostrčil .
Preisler created several works in the pictorial design of Prague Art Nouveau buildings - for example a triptych for the Peterka House on Wenceslas Square in 1900 and for the Prague Municipal House next to the Powder Tower from 1910 to 1912 .
literature
- Vojtěch Volavka: Preisler, Jan . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 372 .
- Manfred Knedlik: Preisler, Jan . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 96, de Gruyter, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-023262-2 , p. 512 f.
- V. Kratinová: Preisler, Jan (1872-1918), painter. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 257.
Web links
- Images on artnet
- Pictures on webumenia.sk
- Literature by and about Jan Preisler in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Remarks
- ↑ for example: Free travel .
- ↑ Prague Art Nouveau
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Preisler, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech painter and printmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Königshof , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 27, 1918 |
| Place of death | Prague |