Josef Mařatka

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Josef Mařatka

Josef Mařatka (born May 25, 1874 in Prague ; died April 20, 1937 there ) was a Czech sculptor .

biography

Mařatka studied from 1889 to 1896 at the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague under Celda Klouček., Palaeontology and sculpture. He then attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague until 1899 , where he studied with Josef Václav Myslbek . The following year Mařatka received a scholarship from Josef Hlávka and went to Paris, where he worked for a short time in Auguste Rodin's studios . His first exhibition took place in Prague in 1902. He spent three years in Rodin's workshop and worked with him on a monument to Alberto Santos-Dumont in Buenos Aires .

He made statues for the foyer of the New Town Hall in Prague. In 1903 he organized a Rodin exhibition and in 1909 an exhibition by Antoine Bourdelle , which had a great influence on sculpture in the Czech Republic. In 1912 he was on a study trip to Italy. Mařatka initially reacted to the influences of Expressionism , but also incorporated elements of Symbolism and Art Nouveau . His most important work of this period is Opuštěná Ariadna (Abandoned Ariadne ) (1903). After that he was strongly influenced by Antoine Bourdelle.

During military service in World War I , he made several portraits of generals. After the war he returned to the styles he had learned from Myslbek by combining neoclassicism with early socialist realism ; z. B. Praha svým vítězným synům (Prague its victorious sons) at the Emmaus monastery . The memorial was destroyed during the Nazi occupation and rebuilt in 1998.

From 1920 he was a professor at the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague. Further study trips to France and Italy took place in 1924, 1926 and 1930. Mařatka is buried in the Olšany cemetery.

Works

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Short biography Who Was Who Was Who in Our History in the 20th Century
  2. ↑ a b Entry in Benezit Dictionary of Artists
  3. ^ Commemorative event for the Czech legionnaires on the website of the Ministry of Defense of the Czech Republic
personal data
SURNAME Mařatka, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1937
Place of death Prague