Jan Štursa

Jan Štursa (1915)

Jan Štursa (born May 15, 1880 , in Nové Město na Moravě , Bohemia , † May 2, 1925 in Prague ) was a Czech sculptor .

Life

Birth and teaching

Jan Štursa was born in the mountainous area of Vysočina . He learned masonry and sculpture in Hořice and then worked as a stonemason. He later studied at the Prague Art Academy with the sculptor Josef Myslbek . As a result of the very severe criticism from Myslbek, Štursa destroyed most of the works.

Topics and materials

Štursa was not influenced by the Czech Revival , like other sculptors, he found his own way. In addition to stone and bronze , he also used plaster of paris and wax . Later he was influenced by Cubism . He also engaged in portrait painting .

Time of the First World War

Sculpture in the Carpathian Mountains , a memorial to the First World War in Předměřice nad Jizerou .

Participation in the First World War had a strong influence on Štursa's work. The most famous work from this period is called "The Wounded".

The inspiration for the sculpture "The Burial of the Carpathians" was a photo of a Carpathian battlefield. The real sculptural group was recreated in Austrian uniforms in a WWI memorial of the victims in the 1920s and placed in the village of Předměřice nad Jizerou , copies were made in Místek and Nové Město na Moravě .

From 1922 to 1924, Štursa was the rector of the Prague Art Academy.

Štursa was at Syphilis ill and committed so in 1925 in his studio two weeks before his 45th birthday suicide .

Works

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  1906 - In front of the bath at the Prague Art Academy

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  Victory sculpture in Hradec Králové

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  1914 - Monument to the Czech actress Hana Kvapilová (1860–1907), Kinského zahrada , Prague

literature

• Arthur Roessler: sculptor Jan Stursa - Prague . In: German Art and Decoration , Vol. 29, Oct. 1911 – March 1912, pp. 456–466.
• P. Wittlich:  Štursa Jan. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 14, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2012–, ISBN 978-3-7001-7312-0 , p. 15 f. (Direct links on p. 15 , p. 16 ).
• Petr Wittlich: Sculpture of the Czech Art Nouveau. Praha, Karolinum Press 2001 ,. ISBN 80-246-0235-0
• Jiří Mašín with Tibor Honty (illustration): Jan Štursa. Odeon, Praha, 1981.

Web links

Commons : Jan Štursa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Jan Štursa in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short CV (Czech)
• Gallery of his works