{"id":5515,"date":"2020-11-21T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.svetkamene.eu\/?p=5515"},"modified":"2021-10-05T18:36:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T16:36:18","slug":"hana-wichterlova-the-first-lady-of-czech-sculpture-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svetkamene.eu\/index.php\/en\/2020\/11\/21\/hana-wichterlova-the-first-lady-of-czech-sculpture-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Hana Wichterlov\u00e1 \u2013 The first lady of Czech sculpture art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hana Wichterlov\u00e1, born March 2, 1903 and her ten-year younger brother Otto Wichterle, the inventor of contact lenses, came from a rich Prost\u011bjov industrialists‘ family – Wichterle and Kova\u0159\u00edk (Wikov) engineering works company.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Father Karel Wichterle belonged to enlightened entrepreneurs who was aware that money is important but it does not mean everything. He was interested in art and culture apart from his business ruthlessness and desire for material success. A hobby which does not bear any penny but it enlightens the heart. He befriended many artists such as architect Jan Kot\u011bra. It was him who noticed that Hana had a talent for fine arts so he recommended that she be sent to an art school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Her studies and works of art<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Sixteen-year-old Hana was attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague where she studied the art of sculpture by Jan \u0160tursa between 1919 and 1925.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Her classmates were Vincenc Makovsk\u00fd, Josef W\u00e1gner or Bed\u0159ich Stefan, her future husband. She graduated with a sculpture called “\u00dadiv“ (i.e. Astonishment) which is considered to be one of her masterpieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After graduation she left for Paris where she lived and create artworks for several years which helped her to mature artistically. She encountered there with the works of Romanian sculptor Constantin Br\u00e2ncu\u015fi whose pieces of art influenced her very much later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among her other well-known artworks belong “Stoj\u00edc\u00ed d\u00edvka“ (Standing girl), “Torzo s v\u00e1zou“(Torso with a Vase), and “Pupen“ (Bud) which represents internal shape of flower-bud.  This artwork is considered to be the most prominent sculpture of inter-war avant-garde. Since 1931 she was a member of the M\u00e1nes Association of Fine Artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Smr\u017eice and Prague studio<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

During World War II she lived at a farm in Smr\u017eice and she did not create any artwork. In 1942 she married a former classmate and sculptor Bed\u0159ich Stefan. In 1948 she came back to Prague, but as for her artwork she started to create artworks in the mid-1950s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the Mal\u00e1 Strana studio Hana Wichterlov\u00e1 lived and worked for over 50 years. She created there many excellent artworks. She was often visited by a photographer Josef Sudek who created the cycle of magical photographs called „Zahr\u00e1dka pan\u00ed socha\u0159ky“ (i.e. A Sculptress’s Garden).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unfinished Mahulena<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Particular place of her artworks occupies the unifinished sculpture Mahulena which she worked on for 35 years. This composition representing symbiosis of a tree and woman body became the symbol of International Sculpture Symposium of Hana Wichterlov\u00e1 which lasted for 10 years in Prost\u011bjov.  She applied to custom-made jobs, too. Animal reliefs which have served as house signs on block of flats on V\u00edt\u011bzn\u00e1 street in Kladno.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An artist of outstanding merit<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In 1968 she was awarded the title of an artist of outstanding merit. In 1988 she should have had an exhibition at Prague’s Nov\u00e1 s\u00ed\u0148 when celebrating her 85th<\/sup> birthday. She gave in this opportunity in favour of young sculptors – The exhibition of Young artists to the anniversary of Hana Wichterlov\u00e9 has become an exceptional cultural event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hana Wichterlov\u00e1 belong to the most prominent figures of Czech inter-war avant-garde sculpture art and she has all right to bear a nickname “the first lady of Czech sculpture art“. She died when working in her studio at the end of August in 1990. She belongs among well-known representatives of modern Czech sculpture art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source: www.lomyatezba.cz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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