Emil Filla

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Emil Filla
Born(1882-04-04)4 April 1882
Chropyně, Austria-Hungary
Died7 October 1953(1953-10-07) (aged 71)
Prague, Czechoslovakia
EducationAcademy of Fine Arts, Prague
Known forPainting
MovementCubism

Emil Filla (4 April 1882 – 7 October 1953) was a

Cubist
painter.

Early life

Emil Filla, c.1912, Nude, watercolor on board, 43.18 x 62.23 cm

Filla was born in Chropyně, Moravia, and spent his childhood in Brno, but later moved to Prague. Beginning in 1903, he studied at (Academy of Fine Arts, Prague), but he left the school in 1906.

Painting

Filla was a member of the group

German Expressionist group Die Brücke. Important works by Filla from this period include Reader of Dostoevsky (1907) and Chess Players (1908). In 1909, he became a member of the Mánes Union of Fine Arts
.

Beginning in 1910 he painted primarily in a

Braque, and produced works such as Salome (1911) and Bathers (1912). He also began to paint many still lifes
around that time. In 1911, he edited several issues of Volné směry, promoting Cubism and publishing reproductions of works by Picasso. After both readers and the leaders of Mánes reacted negatively, he and others withdrew from Mánes and founded Skupina výtvarných umělců (Group of Visual Artists), which was a Cubist-oriented group.

Around 1913, he and

Surrealist influence also began to show in his painting and sculpture, and he was a participant in Poesie 1932
, an international exhibition in Prague that introduced Surrealism to the Czech public. He did not, however, become a Surrealist.

His works have been compiled by Prof. Vojtěch Lahoda in a catalogue raisonne published in 2007 by Academia press in Prague.[2]

1939–1953

On the first day of World War II he was arrested by the

concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald. [3] However, he survived, returned home and began to teach at the Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová v Praze (VŠUP—Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague). Filla's teachings at the Academy ensure the continuance of Czech Cubism, and his influence is notable in the works of his pupil Milos Reindl amongst others.[4]

In 1945, he was the first artist to be given a post-war exhibition at Mánes. After the war, he exhibited mainly works from the cycle Boje a zápasy (Fights and Struggles), and later mainly produced landscapes. During his lifetime he was active as a painter, sculptor, collector, theoretician, editor, organizer, and diplomat. From 1947 to 1952, he lived and worked in the castle in Peruc. In the southern wing of the castle, where he lived, today there is a memorial hall with his paintings.[5] He died on 7 October 1953 in Prague and is buried in Střešovice district of Prague.

He idolized

Braque
.

Monetary valuation

His painting "sculptress in the studio" was sold by Sotheby's on 13th of June 2011 for 623,650 GBP and "seated woman" was sold on 14th of November 2017 for 729,000 GBP. This is the highest recorded price paid for a painting by Filla.[6]

See also

Wikisource has original works by or about:
Emil Filla

References

  1. ISBN 0714832502
  2. ^ "LAHODA, Vojtěch : Emil Filla". search.mlp.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2020-09-27.
  3. ^ "Emil Filla". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
  4. ISBN 2895400563
    . Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  5. ^ Dlouhý, Hynek (2022-07-26). "Filla se vrátí do milované Peruce. Spory končí, obrazy budou opět na zámku" (in Czech). Deník.cz. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
  6. ^ "Emil Filla". Sothebys.com. Retrieved 2020-09-27.

External links

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