Oskar Brázda

Oskar Brázda (born September 30, 1887 in Rosice nad Labem near Pardubice , † December 19, 1977 in Líčkov ) was a Czech academic painter and sculptor . He is particularly known as a portrait painter and painter of realism .

life and work

Oskar Brázda studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and then thanks to an imperial scholarship in Italy at the Villa Strohl-Fern in Rome. In 1915 he married the Swedish author Amelie Posse in Rome . In the First World War he fought in the Czech-Slovak resistance movement. In 1915-16 he was interned in Alghero , Sardinia . In 1925 he returned to Czechoslovakia due to the changed situation in Italy. In the same year, at the time of the agrarian reform, his family bought the Líčkov / Litschkau castle near Saaz / Žatec in northern Bohemia and Oskar Brázda lived in this castle with his Swedish wife. After the annexation of the Sudetenland to the German Empire, he moved to Dobříš south of Prague . After the end of the war he returned to Litschkau Castle.

In 1948 he was expropriated by the communist rulers and the palace and many of his paintings came into state ownership. However, he could still stay in the lock. He was already divorced and now lived in the castle with his muse and partner Marie Weissová from the village of Líčkov. She later became his second wife. The painter spent the rest of his life with her; she not only served as a model for the master’s paintings, but after his death she also made a contribution to ensuring that all of Brázda’s work was retained in the Líčkov Castle collection. In 1992 Marie Brázdová got the castle back.

literature

• P. Kmošek: Brázda, Oskar . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 14, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22754-X , p. 36.
• Otakar Špecinger: Oskar Brázda, Digon 2006
• Otakar Špecinger: Oskar Brázda, na paměť velkého malíře, 1993

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Amelie Posse-Brázdová (born February 11, 1884 in Stockholm; † March 3, 1957)