Czech Cubism was an
avant-gardeAvant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
art movement of Czech proponents of
CubismCubism was a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music and literature. The first branch of cubism, known as "Analytic Cubism", was both radical and influential as...
, active mostly in
PraguePrague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Nicknames for Prague have included "the mother of cities" , "city of a hundred spires", or Stověžatá Praha in Czech and "the golden city" or Zlaté město in Czech.Situated on the River Vltava in central Bohemia, Prague has been the...
from 1910 to 1914.
Members of this movement realised the epochal significance of the Cubism of
Pablo PicassoPablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. Commonly known simply as Picasso, he is one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art...
and
Georges BraqueGeorges Braque[p] was a major 20th century French painter and sculptor who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed the art movement known as Cubism.-Youth:...
and attempted to extract its components for their own work in all branches of artistic creativity -
sculptureSculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard and/or plastic material, sound, and/or text and or light, commonly stone , metal, glass, or wood. Some sculptures are created directly by finding or carving; others are assembled, built together and fired, welded, molded,...
,
paintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting. Paintings may have for their support such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, clay or concrete...
and
architectureFor a topical guide to this subject, see Outline of architecture. Architecture is the art and science of designing and constructing buildings and other physical structures for human shelter or use....
. The Czech
Otto GutfreundOtto Gutfreund was a Czechoslovak cubist sculptor. He is acknowledged by the art critic Douglas Cooper to be the author of the first cubist sculpture: Anxiety , created in 1911 and exhibited in Paris in 1912.- Life :Otto Gutfreund was born in the town of Dvůr Králové nad Labem as the fourth of...
is acknowledged, by the art critic Douglas Cooper (1911-1984), to be the author of the first Cubist sculpture
Anxiety (
Úzkost in Czech), created in 1911 and exhibited in Paris in 1912.
The most notable participants in this movement were the painters
Emil FillaEmil Filla , a Czech painter, was a leader of the Avante Garde movement in Prague between WWI and WWII and early Cubist painter....
,
Antonín ProcházkaAntonín Procházka is a Czech former volleyball player who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1968 Summer Olympics.He was born in Brno....
, and
Josef ČapekJosef Čapek was a Czech artist who was best known as a painter, but who was also noted as a writer and a poet. He invented the word robot, which was introduced into literature by his brother, Karel Čapek.- Biography :...
, the sculptor
Otto GutfreundOtto Gutfreund was a Czechoslovak cubist sculptor. He is acknowledged by the art critic Douglas Cooper to be the author of the first cubist sculpture: Anxiety , created in 1911 and exhibited in Paris in 1912.- Life :Otto Gutfreund was born in the town of Dvůr Králové nad Labem as the fourth of...
, the writer
Karel ČapekKarel Čapek was one of the most influential Czech writers of the 20th century. He introduced and made popular the frequently used international word robot, which first appeared in his play R.U.R. in 1921...
, and the architects
Pavel JanákPavel Janák was a Czech modernist architect, furniture designer, town planner, professor and theoretician.Janák studied with Otto Wagner in Vienna between 1906 and 1908, and worked in Prague under Jan Kotěra...
,
Josef GočárJosef Gočár , was a Czech architect, one of the founders of modern architecture in Czechoslovakia....
,
Vlastislav HofmanVlastislav Hofman was a Czech artist and architect. Though he was a painter, set designer, graphic artist, furniture designer, and author, Hofman is best known as an architect strongly influenced by Cubism....
and
Josef ChocholJosef Chochol was a Czech architect.-Education:Chocol studied architecture at the polytechnic in Prague , then at the academy in Vienna, under guidance of Otto Wagner .-Career:...
.
Czech Cubism was an
avant-gardeAvant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
art movement of Czech proponents of
CubismCubism was a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music and literature. The first branch of cubism, known as "Analytic Cubism", was both radical and influential as...
, active mostly in
PraguePrague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Nicknames for Prague have included "the mother of cities" , "city of a hundred spires", or Stověžatá Praha in Czech and "the golden city" or Zlaté město in Czech.Situated on the River Vltava in central Bohemia, Prague has been the...
from 1910 to 1914.
Members of this movement realised the epochal significance of the Cubism of
Pablo PicassoPablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. Commonly known simply as Picasso, he is one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art...
and
Georges BraqueGeorges Braque[p] was a major 20th century French painter and sculptor who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed the art movement known as Cubism.-Youth:...
and attempted to extract its components for their own work in all branches of artistic creativity -
sculptureSculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard and/or plastic material, sound, and/or text and or light, commonly stone , metal, glass, or wood. Some sculptures are created directly by finding or carving; others are assembled, built together and fired, welded, molded,...
,
paintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting. Paintings may have for their support such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, clay or concrete...
and
architectureFor a topical guide to this subject, see Outline of architecture. Architecture is the art and science of designing and constructing buildings and other physical structures for human shelter or use....
. The Czech
Otto GutfreundOtto Gutfreund was a Czechoslovak cubist sculptor. He is acknowledged by the art critic Douglas Cooper to be the author of the first cubist sculpture: Anxiety , created in 1911 and exhibited in Paris in 1912.- Life :Otto Gutfreund was born in the town of Dvůr Králové nad Labem as the fourth of...
is acknowledged, by the art critic Douglas Cooper (1911-1984), to be the author of the first Cubist sculpture
Anxiety (
Úzkost in Czech), created in 1911 and exhibited in Paris in 1912.
The most notable participants in this movement were the painters
Emil FillaEmil Filla , a Czech painter, was a leader of the Avante Garde movement in Prague between WWI and WWII and early Cubist painter....
,
Antonín ProcházkaAntonín Procházka is a Czech former volleyball player who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1968 Summer Olympics.He was born in Brno....
, and
Josef ČapekJosef Čapek was a Czech artist who was best known as a painter, but who was also noted as a writer and a poet. He invented the word robot, which was introduced into literature by his brother, Karel Čapek.- Biography :...
, the sculptor
Otto GutfreundOtto Gutfreund was a Czechoslovak cubist sculptor. He is acknowledged by the art critic Douglas Cooper to be the author of the first cubist sculpture: Anxiety , created in 1911 and exhibited in Paris in 1912.- Life :Otto Gutfreund was born in the town of Dvůr Králové nad Labem as the fourth of...
, the writer
Karel ČapekKarel Čapek was one of the most influential Czech writers of the 20th century. He introduced and made popular the frequently used international word robot, which first appeared in his play R.U.R. in 1921...
, and the architects
Pavel JanákPavel Janák was a Czech modernist architect, furniture designer, town planner, professor and theoretician.Janák studied with Otto Wagner in Vienna between 1906 and 1908, and worked in Prague under Jan Kotěra...
,
Josef GočárJosef Gočár , was a Czech architect, one of the founders of modern architecture in Czechoslovakia....
,
Vlastislav HofmanVlastislav Hofman was a Czech artist and architect. Though he was a painter, set designer, graphic artist, furniture designer, and author, Hofman is best known as an architect strongly influenced by Cubism....
and
Josef ChocholJosef Chochol was a Czech architect.-Education:Chocol studied architecture at the polytechnic in Prague , then at the academy in Vienna, under guidance of Otto Wagner .-Career:...
. Many of these artists were members of the
Mánes Union of Fine ArtsThe Manes Association of Fine Artists was an artists' association and exhibition society founded in 1887 in Prague and named after the painter Josef Mánes....
.
After
CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...
's founding in 1918, architectural Czech Cubism gradually developed into Czech Rondocubism, which was more decorative, as it was influenced by traditional folk ornaments to celebrate the revival of Czech national independence.