Catalogue information

LastDodo number
1629445
Area
Drawings / paintings
Title
kubistisch
Art object
Art Movement / style
Theme
Technique used
Colouring
Dimensions
42 x 27 cm
Series / hero
Collection / set
Number
Addition to number
Year
1915
Country
Language
Details

Emil Filla was born on April 4, 1882 in Chropyne, Moravia. From 1903 to 1906 he studied at the Prague Academy of Art. In 1906, Filla traveled with Arnost Procházka and Feigl, who had followed the art academy in Antwerp, to Germany, the Netherlands and Paris. Together with Procházka and Bohumil Kubista, among others, Emil Filla belonged to the Czech artist group OSMA (= EIGHT), founded in 1907, which aimed for a dramatic depiction of the world in a more expressionist style and was named after the eight founders. In the company of Bohumil Kubista and Otto Gutfreund, Filla visited Paris in 1909, where he became acquainted with the Cubism of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. In 1911 he co-founded the Skupina výtvarných Umelcu (= Group of Visual Artists). Other members included the painters Vincenc Benes, Antonín Procházka, Václav Spála, Josef Capek, the architects Josef Gocár, Vlastislav Hofman, Josef Chochol, Pavel Janák, the sculptor Otto Gutfreund and the writer Karel Capek. Until 1914 the group published the magazine Umelecký Mesícník (= Artistic monthly magazine). From January 1912 the group organized a number of exhibitions in Prague and in Munich and Berlin. In June 1914, Filla returned to Paris, where he lived under Braque at the Hôtel Roma on Rue Caulaincourt. While Filla and Gutfreund stayed in Paris, the First World War broke out. Filla saw an opportunity to go to Rotterdam in the neutral Netherlands. Until the summer of 1915 Filla lived in Rotterdam and after that Filla stayed mainly in Amsterdam until 1920, where he immersed himself in 17th century still lifes. His anti-fascist stance resulted in Filla being arrested on September 1, 1939, Germany's invasion of Czechoslovakia. During the Second World War, he ended up in the concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald. He survived this hell and in 1945 he was appointed as a teacher at the 'High School of Industrial Art' in Prague. Filla died in Prague on October 6, 1952. (www.kubismus.info)

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