Czech movement in fine arts founded by two Czech artists in France between the two world wars.
Sculptor, graphic artist, designer, illustrator and author, the most important representative of Czech symbolist sculpture. He was inspired by various spiritual movements and was known as a religious thinker and a mystic.
Prominent Czech graphic artist, painter, illustrator, scenographer, animator and caricaturist. One of the most important figures of Czech comics.
Graphic artist, painter, representative of active and structural graphics, one of the most talented Czech artists. He contributed to Czech modern art by introducing a new artistic movement, the so-called explosionism.
Distinguished 20th-century painter and a very prolific illustrator whose drawings decorated hundreds of adventure books and who became a foremost representative of paleo art.
Contemporary Czech sculptor, author of many controversial sculptures and installations, e.g. Entropa and the pink Soviet tank.
Important avant-garde association of writers, theoreticians, architects, theatre artists and fine artists. It organised different cultural events, mostly in the spirit of left-wing politics.
Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, theoretician and diplomat, introduced Cubism in its best form to Czech art. Today, his works are some of the most expensive paintings sold at auctions in the Czech Republic.
Cubist painter, an important figure of Czech modernism, one of the most important representatives of the so-called organic abstraction. He made his name in the interwar period and is primarily famous for his abstract works.
Important 20th century Czech painter and graphic artist, member of Group 42. His work stemmed from Cubism and he managed to surpass Socialist Realism and develop his own unique style based on play with colour configurations and combinations of diverse fine arts techniques.
Association of fine artists, architects, writers and theoreticians of fine arts, active shortly before the First World War, between 1911 and 1914. The group’s activities created conditions for the development of Czech modern art.
Association of fine artists, architects, art historians and critics in Brno, which existed in interwar Czechoslovakia and participated in the development of modern art in Moravia.
Prominent representative of modern Czech sculpture and one of the most important Cubist sculptors. He created many reliefs and sculptures and drew sketches of the highest quality.
A distinguished painter and graphic artist, who brought to Czech painting a distinctly atmospheric plein air painting. He belonged to the so-called Generation of the National Theatre and is primarily known as an author of the theatre curtain.
One of the most magnificent sculptures in the Czech Republic and allegedly the third largest equestrian statue in the world. It is a part of the National Monument on top of Vítkov hill in Prague.
Prominent sculptor, medallist and university teacher, a foremost representative of Czech figurative sculpture of the first half of the 20th century.
Czech poet, translator, fine artist, author of collages and art collector. One of the most important figures of Czech modern art.
Important 20th century Czech painter, industrial artist, theoretician of graphic arts and professor. He also worked with design and was recognised in Germany as well.
Distinguished Czech painter of classical modernism. He was misunderstood at home during his life, but was acknowledged in France.
Painter, graphic artist and theoretician of art, one of the most famous Czech visual artists. He laid the foundations of Czech Cubism and through his work inspired the young interwar generation. Today his paintings are among the most valuable pieces auctioned in the Czech Republic.
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