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Karla Vobišová-Žáková , ( January 21, 1887 Kunžak – June 7, 1961 Prague ) was the first Czech professional sculptor .
Life
Karla Vobišová was born in the village of Kunžak near Jindřichova Hradec, as the third child out of a total of thirteen. She was the daughter of František Vobiš, a miller and grocer in Kunžak, and his wife Marie. She acquired her first practical skills in sculpture in the studios of Břetislav Kafka in Červený Kostelec . She studied as a housekeeper in 1911–1913 and in 1916 at the sculpture school in Hořice with professor Quido Kocian . She continued her studies in the years 1917–1921 at the Art and Industrial School in Prague under professors Josef Drahoňovský , Bohumil Kafka, Stanislav Sucharda and Štěpán Zálešák. In 1919 and 1920 she studied in Munich and with prof. Anton Hanák in Vienna, in the years 1920-1924 in Paris with Emil Antoine Bourdell .
From 1922, she created several smaller sculptures in bronze, modeled summarily and without unnecessary details, with expressive hand gestures (Lot's wife, 1922, Sibyl, 1922, Father with son, 1922, Nový život, 1930).
She created a commemorative plaque with a portrait of Eliška Krásnohorská and in 1929 won the first prize in a competition for a monument to Eliška Krásnohorská . For its realization (1931), she received an award from the Academy of Sciences and Arts .
Vobišová is the author of numerous sculptural portraits of famous personalities ( Otokar Březina , Jaroslav Vrchlický Charlotta Masaryková , Marie Winterová-Mezerová, Bohumil Kafka , Teréza Nováková , Helena Malířová , Marie Pujmanová , Karolína Světlá , Fráňa Šrámek and Mrs. Šrámková, SK Neumann and Mrs. Neumannová, Josef Hora , Václav Šolc , Bozena Němcová , Karel Hynek Mácha , Minka Podhajská , Renáta Tyršová , Otakar Mařák ,Bohuslav Martinů , PhDr J. Václavková, dr. F. Staněk, K. Weinzettl, K. Jonáš) and memorial plaques.
Vobišová often portrayed children - her own ( Přemysl , 1921, 1925, 1925, Karel , 1931) and others ( Dášenka , marble, 1930, Alenka , 1935) or Tomas Bata's children on the occasion of the Zlín Salon. In addition, she created free portrait works ( Head of a Woman , maple wood) [and female nudes ( Nude , plaster, 1924, Opening the Wells , marble, 1935, Summer , bronze, Vine , Carrara marble, Reader , shell limestone, 1937, Girl with a flower , bronze, Girl , bronze) [12]Her sculpture Sculptor from 1950 is placed on her tombstone in the Vyšehrad cemetery. In addition, as a student in 1920, she created the sandstone tombstone of F. Kukla (1920).
Vobišová was constantly involved in sacred art - she created a statue of Blessed Agnes from polychrome linden wood for the main altar of the church in Spořilov in Prague, a polychrome statue of Blessed Zdislava for the Pilsen Dominicans (1927), a statue of St. Peter and Paul for the church in Bratislava, or the white marble Pieta for the church in Velka Belina, Slovakia (around 1960).
Posthumous realization
Since April 2018, the Prague Cathedral of St. Vitus, Wenceslas and Adagio has housed a statue of St. Adagio , surrounded by his brother Radim and friend Radla. The sculpture is the result of a competition held in 1936. The original design by Karla Vobišová-Žáková from 1937, which won the 2nd prize in the competition (the first was not awarded), represented a half-reclining saint supported by two angels. Over the course of ten years, the sculptor created three models in different sizes, and the final plaster model was exhibited in the cathedral in 1947. However, the restoration of work and the realization of the sculptures in silver took place only after the death of the artist, in the period 2010–2018.
Exhibitions
exhibition of the Circle of Visual Artists in the Municipal House in Prague 1922, 1924
1927 Karla Vobišová as a guest of the Circle of Visual Artists, Municipal House in Prague and 1939
1959 Sculptor Karla Vobišová to Czech literature in the National Literature Memorial in Prague.
1987 Exhibition of the sculptor's life's work on the occasion of the centenary of her birth in the Central Bohemian Gallery in Prague.
2018 Exhibition Karla Vobišová – Poet of faces and stone , gallery Michal's collection, Prague (connected with the launch of the monograph)
Work (most famous sculptures)
1919 Monument to those who died in the First World War in Nové Paca
1927 Eliška Krásnohorská memorial plaque on the house in Černá Street in Prague
1927 Portrait sculpture of Renata Tyršová
1931 Monument to Eliška Krásnohorská on Charles Square in Prague (unveiled 1937)
1933 Monument to those who died in the First World War in Kunžak
Fráni Šrámek's memorial plaque at her birthplace in Sobotka
1937 first prize in the competition for the tombstone of St. Vojtěcha Sousoší St. Apothecary dying , silver, Cathedral of St. Vitus, Wenceslas and Apothecary (plaster design 1947, removed after the communist coup 1948, cast in silver 2018)
1960 sculpture Réva (Girl with grapes) , Park Kampa , Prague
Representation in collections
National Gallery in Prague (Ch. Garrigue Masaryková, marble, Karolina Světlá, bronze, B. Martinů, bronze)
Regional Gallery of the Highlands in Jihlava (AM Tilschová, bronze)
North Bohemian Gallery in Litoměřice (KH Mácha, plaster)
Central Bohemian Gallery - GASK (Maple, bronze)
Prague Capital Gallery (Peace to the children of the whole world, linden, 1939)
Moravian Gallery in Brno (portrait of grandmother, pear, 1927)
Physical education and sports collection of the National Museum (Renata Tyršová, plaster patinated sculpture on an artificial marble plinth)
National Literature Monument (Josef Hora, bronze)
Náprstkovo Museum Prague (F. Plamínková, marble)
Jedlička Institute in Prague (Prof. Rudolf Jedlička, marble)
Archive of Marie Pujmanová in Prague (M. Pujmanová, bronze)
Terezín Museum (Unconquered, bronze, 1955)
The city of Sobotka (Fráňa Šrámek, bronze, marble, V. Šolc, pewter)
Chod museum Domažlice (J. Vrchlický, bronze)
Kunžak Elementary School (Božena Němcová, bronze)
Zbiroh - outdoor cinema (JV Sládek, tin)
Balneological Museum of Piešťany (L. Winter, pink limestone)
private collections (Otakar Ostrčil, Otakar Březina, M. Měřičková, grandfather of the sculptor)
She was a member of art associations:
Circle of female visual artists (she was elected its president in 1933)
Brno art association Aleš
She died in Prague, she is buried in Prague's Vyšehrad Cemetery
Awards
1928 annual award, Art Department IV. classes of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts
1941 honorable mention, Art Department IV. classes of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts
Posthumous recognition
Karla Vobišová-Žáková is an honorary citizen of her native village of Kunžak, where her memorial plaque is also located.
On the centenary of his birth, an exhibition of his life's work was organized in the Central Bohemian Gallery (1987-1988
Artist
Vobisova
Dimensions
H 11 in
W 13 in
Weight 27 lbs
Karla Vobišová-Žáková , ( January 21, 1887 Kunžak – June 7, 1961 Prague ) was the first Czech professional sculptor .
Life
Karla Vobišová was born in the village of Kunžak near Jindřichova Hradec, as the third child out of a total of thirteen. She was the daughter of František Vobiš, a miller and grocer in Kunžak, and his wife Marie. She acquired her first practical skills in sculpture in the studios of Břetislav Kafka in Červený Kostelec . She studied as a housekeeper in 1911–1913 and in 1916 at the sculpture school in Hořice with professor Quido Kocian . She continued her studies in the years 1917–1921 at the Art and Industrial School in Prague under professors Josef Drahoňovský , Bohumil Kafka, Stanislav Sucharda and Štěpán Zálešák. In 1919 and 1920 she studied in Munich and with prof. Anton Hanák in Vienna, in the years 1920-1924 in Paris with Emil Antoine Bourdell .
From 1922, she created several smaller sculptures in bronze, modeled summarily and without unnecessary details, with expressive hand gestures (Lot's wife, 1922, Sibyl, 1922, Father with son, 1922, Nový život, 1930).
She created a commemorative plaque with a portrait of Eliška Krásnohorská and in 1929 won the first prize in a competition for a monument to Eliška Krásnohorská . For its realization (1931), she received an award from the Academy of Sciences and Arts .
Vobišová is the author of numerous sculptural portraits of famous personalities ( Otokar Březina , Jaroslav Vrchlický Charlotta Masaryková , Marie Winterová-Mezerová, Bohumil Kafka , Teréza Nováková , Helena Malířová , Marie Pujmanová , Karolína Světlá , Fráňa Šrámek and Mrs. Šrámková, SK Neumann and Mrs. Neumannová, Josef Hora , Václav Šolc , Bozena Němcová , Karel Hynek Mácha , Minka Podhajská , Renáta Tyršová , Otakar Mařák ,Bohuslav Martinů , PhDr J. Václavková, dr. F. Staněk, K. Weinzettl, K. Jonáš) and memorial plaques.
Vobišová often portrayed children - her own ( Přemysl , 1921, 1925, 1925, Karel , 1931) and others ( Dášenka , marble, 1930, Alenka , 1935) or Tomas Bata's children on the occasion of the Zlín Salon. In addition, she created free portrait works ( Head of a Woman , maple wood) [and female nudes ( Nude , plaster, 1924, Opening the Wells , marble, 1935, Summer , bronze, Vine , Carrara marble, Reader , shell limestone, 1937, Girl with a flower , bronze, Girl , bronze) [12]Her sculpture Sculptor from 1950 is placed on her tombstone in the Vyšehrad cemetery. In addition, as a student in 1920, she created the sandstone tombstone of F. Kukla (1920).
Vobišová was constantly involved in sacred art - she created a statue of Blessed Agnes from polychrome linden wood for the main altar of the church in Spořilov in Prague, a polychrome statue of Blessed Zdislava for the Pilsen Dominicans (1927), a statue of St. Peter and Paul for the church in Bratislava, or the white marble Pieta for the church in Velka Belina, Slovakia (around 1960).
Posthumous realization
Since April 2018, the Prague Cathedral of St. Vitus, Wenceslas and Adagio has housed a statue of St. Adagio , surrounded by his brother Radim and friend Radla. The sculpture is the result of a competition held in 1936. The original design by Karla Vobišová-Žáková from 1937, which won the 2nd prize in the competition (the first was not awarded), represented a half-reclining saint supported by two angels. Over the course of ten years, the sculptor created three models in different sizes, and the final plaster model was exhibited in the cathedral in 1947. However, the restoration of work and the realization of the sculptures in silver took place only after the death of the artist, in the period 2010–2018.
Exhibitions
exhibition of the Circle of Visual Artists in the Municipal House in Prague 1922, 1924
1927 Karla Vobišová as a guest of the Circle of Visual Artists, Municipal House in Prague and 1939
1959 Sculptor Karla Vobišová to Czech literature in the National Literature Memorial in Prague.
1987 Exhibition of the sculptor's life's work on the occasion of the centenary of her birth in the Central Bohemian Gallery in Prague.
2018 Exhibition Karla Vobišová – Poet of faces and stone , gallery Michal's collection, Prague (connected with the launch of the monograph)
Work (most famous sculptures)
1919 Monument to those who died in the First World War in Nové Paca
1927 Eliška Krásnohorská memorial plaque on the house in Černá Street in Prague
1927 Portrait sculpture of Renata Tyršová
1931 Monument to Eliška Krásnohorská on Charles Square in Prague (unveiled 1937)
1933 Monument to those who died in the First World War in Kunžak
Fráni Šrámek's memorial plaque at her birthplace in Sobotka
1937 first prize in the competition for the tombstone of St. Vojtěcha Sousoší St. Apothecary dying , silver, Cathedral of St. Vitus, Wenceslas and Apothecary (plaster design 1947, removed after the communist coup 1948, cast in silver 2018)
1960 sculpture Réva (Girl with grapes) , Park Kampa , Prague
Representation in collections
National Gallery in Prague (Ch. Garrigue Masaryková, marble, Karolina Světlá, bronze, B. Martinů, bronze)
Regional Gallery of the Highlands in Jihlava (AM Tilschová, bronze)
North Bohemian Gallery in Litoměřice (KH Mácha, plaster)
Central Bohemian Gallery - GASK (Maple, bronze)
Prague Capital Gallery (Peace to the children of the whole world, linden, 1939)
Moravian Gallery in Brno (portrait of grandmother, pear, 1927)
Physical education and sports collection of the National Museum (Renata Tyršová, plaster patinated sculpture on an artificial marble plinth)
National Literature Monument (Josef Hora, bronze)
Náprstkovo Museum Prague (F. Plamínková, marble)
Jedlička Institute in Prague (Prof. Rudolf Jedlička, marble)
Archive of Marie Pujmanová in Prague (M. Pujmanová, bronze)
Terezín Museum (Unconquered, bronze, 1955)
The city of Sobotka (Fráňa Šrámek, bronze, marble, V. Šolc, pewter)
Chod museum Domažlice (J. Vrchlický, bronze)
Kunžak Elementary School (Božena Němcová, bronze)
Zbiroh - outdoor cinema (JV Sládek, tin)
Balneological Museum of Piešťany (L. Winter, pink limestone)
private collections (Otakar Ostrčil, Otakar Březina, M. Měřičková, grandfather of the sculptor)
She was a member of art associations:
Circle of female visual artists (she was elected its president in 1933)
Brno art association Aleš
She died in Prague, she is buried in Prague's Vyšehrad Cemetery
Awards
1928 annual award, Art Department IV. classes of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts
1941 honorable mention, Art Department IV. classes of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts
Posthumous recognition
Karla Vobišová-Žáková is an honorary citizen of her native village of Kunžak, where her memorial plaque is also located.
On the centenary of his birth, an exhibition of his life's work was organized in the Central Bohemian Gallery (1987-1988
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