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The Czech art historian Barbora Putova wrote: [13] Just like a medieval artist, Kristek personally welds, grinds and carves his sculptures. From many aspects his free-standing statues represent a surreal parallel with the paintings of the Czech painter Mikuláš Medek (1926–1974), the German painter Max Ernst (1891–1976) and the Spanish ...
This is a list of Czech artists. These include artists in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography and printmaking as well as other genres, including installation art, performance art, conceptual art and video art. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Contents ...
The White House's Art collection was established by an Act of Congress in 1961 and grew extensively during the Kennedy Administration. [5] It now includes more than 65,000 objects if individual items are catalogued. [6]
18 July – Vaughn Bodē, American underground comics, graphic design and graffiti artist, of autoerotic asphyxiation (b. 1941). 21 July – George Petty, American pin-up artist (b. 1894). 28 August – Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907). 2 October – Seamus Murphy, Irish sculptor (b. 1907). 9 October - Leon Underwood, English sculptor ...
Bohuš Čížek was born into a family of farmer Bohumil Čížek and Marie Čížková, née Bláhová as their second son. At the estate farm he spent his childhood, acquiring first life sensations, developing imagination and drawing inspiration (among others through an illustrations by Adolf Kašpar, from a favourite book The Grandmother, in Czech: Babička).
In 1940, the Nazis seized a Claude Monet pastel and seven other works of art from Adalbert "Bela" and Hilda Parlagi, a Jewish couple forced to flee their Vienna home after Austria was annexed into ...
Dana Zámečníková' (born 24 March 1945) is a Czech glass artist, painter, graphic artist, architect and teacher. She is one of the most important glass artists of the post-war generation that graduated in the 1960s.
Elsie Paroubek was a Czech American girl who disappeared in Chicago, Illinois, on 8 April 1911. On 9 May 1911, employees of the Lockport power plant near Joliet, thirty-five miles outside of Chicago, saw a body floating in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal that was identified as hers. [49] Died from suffocation 31 days 1912 Teresita Guitart ...