Vincenc Beneš
Vincenc Beneš (born January 22, 1883 in Lišice , Austria-Hungary , † March 27, 1979 in Prague ) was a Czech painter and graphic artist of the modern age.
Life
Beneš studied from 1902 at the Prague Art Academy and from 1904 to 1907 at the Academy of Fine Arts with Vlaho Bukovac and Rudolf Otto von Ottenfeld . In 1907 he joined the group "Osma" ("The Eight"), which was founded by Emil Filla together with Bohumil Kubišta , Emil Artur Pittermann , Otakar Kubín , Bedřich Feigl , Max Horb , Willi Nowak and Antonín Procházka . With these he showed himself to be open to the new art movements of Cubism and Fauvism and, like Filla, Kubin and Procházka, was invited by Herwarth Walden to the First German Autumn Salon in Berlin in 1913 , where he showed a female torso , two etchings and two still lifes , one there was a picture in the catalog.
He was one of the main exponents of Cubism in Bohemia , later taking up the influence of Expressionism and then again of Post-Impressionism . Later he turned to neoclassicism and made paintings for the interior of the National Theater , which in 1938 also commissioned him with the stage design for a production of the Czech national opera The Bartered Bride .
From 1909 to 1911 and then again from 1917 to 1949 he was a member of the Czech artists' association Spolek výtvarných umělců Mánes, which was named after Josef Mánes and founded in 1887 . In 1925 he became a corresponding member of the Hagenbund in Vienna. In 1933 Beneš was accepted into the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts . After the Second World War he was named "Honored Artist" in Czechoslovakia in 1954 and "Artist of the People" in 1963.
literature
- Oldřich J. Blažíček : Beneš, Vincenc . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 167 .
- J. Baleca: Beneš, Vincenc . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 9, Saur, Munich a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-598-22749-3 , p. 39 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Vincenc Beneš in the catalog of the German National Library
- Vincenc Beneš Short biography at artfact
Individual evidence
- ↑ SVU ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Member list
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beneš, Vincenc |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Benes, Vincenc; Benes, Vincens |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lišice |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 1979 |
| Place of death | Prague |