Jiří Seifert

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Symposium of European Sculptors, St. Margarethen, Burgenland; Work by Jiri Seifert

Jiří Seifert (born October 5, 1932 in Prague , † July 25, 1999 in Řevnice , Prague-West district ) was a Czech sculptor .

Life

Subsequent to studying at the arts and crafts school in Gablonz ( Northern Bohemia ) 1947-51, Seifert continued to study at the arts and crafts university in Prague with Bedřich Stefan until 1958 .

From 1958 he lived in Liberec (German: Reichenberg ) in northern Bohemia. There he worked with architects and the regional gallery. From 1970 on he lived in Řevnice near Prague, where he worked as a sculptor and restorer.

After 1970 Seifert was banned from exhibiting in what was then the ČSSR for about 20 years .

In 1981 he was able to realize an outdoor composition in honor of the architect Adolf Loos in Liberec and in 1987 sculptures in Geneva and in the Bulgarian city ​​of Trjawna . Seifert also took part in sculpture symposia. He was married to Hana Seifertová.

Participation in sculpture symposia

Solo exhibitions

  • 1959 Prague, gallery mladych
  • 1962 Prague, Club Urmelcu Manes
  • 1963 Vysoké nad Jizerou, museum
  • 1964 Liberec, North Bohemian Museum
  • 1966 Litomerice, Oblastni Gallery / Prague, Špálova Gallery
  • 1969 Tabor, City Theater
  • 1976 Revnice, cultural center
  • 1980 Prague, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry
  • 1984 Prague, atrium
  • 1989 Prague, Old Town Hall, Prague City Gallery (Galerie hlavniho mesta Prahy)
  • 2001 Prague, Museum of Fine Arts (České muzeum výtvarných umění v Praze)

Works (selection)

  • Good afternoon Syke. 1991 (Sculpture Symposium in Syke), 390 × 107 × 90 cm, 4 columns each 100 × 40 × 40 cm, sand-lime brick
  • The table. 1995 (Granite Symposium in Milevsko)

literature

Catalogs:

  • Louis Niebuhr : European sculpture symposium. Shapes for Europe - stone shapes: Miguel Ausili, Italy (Tuscany); Ioanna Filippidu , Greece (Thrace); Janez Lenassi , Yugoslavia (Slovenia); Jiri Seifert, Czechoslovakia (Prague); Werner Stötzer , Germany (Brandenburg); Louis Niebuhr, Germany (Lower Saxony). August 25, 1991 to October 6, 1991; Syke, La Chartre Street. Catalog; Ed .: Stadt Syke, Syke 1991.
  • Jiří Seifert: sculptura. Galerie hlavniho mesta Prahy, Praha 1989. (Exhibition October 28 - November 12, 1989, catalog, 32 uncounted pages, with portraits; Text: Olga Malá).
  • Jiří Seifert: sochy, sculpture. České Muzeum Výtvarných Umění, Praha 2001, ISBN 80-7056-089-4 . (Exhibition March 8th - May 13th 2001; catalog 40 uncounted sheets; Ed. Miroslava Hájek).

Web links

Commons : Jiří Seifert  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Seifert Jiří. In: artarchiv.cz. Informační systém abART, accessed on August 16, 2019 (cz).
  2. ^ Louis Niebuhr: European Sculpture Symposium. Syke 1991, p. 10, p. 24/25.
  3. ↑ Happy 70th birthday to Hana Seifertová , May 12, 2004 in www.codart.nl (accessed on July 5, 2012).
  4. ^ Horschitz, participant
  5. ^ Jiří Seifert. Sochy a kresby. July 1 - 31, 1966. Špálova Gallery, Prague 1966. (Exhibition information, 4 uncounted sheets).
personal data
SURNAME Seifert, Jiří
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1999
Place of death Řevnice , Okres Praha-západ