Franz Cižek
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Franz Cižek (12 June 1865 – 17 December 1946) was an
Life
Franz Cižek was born František Čížek on June 12, 1865 in
He died there on December 17, 1946.Career
In 1885, Cižek entered the
In 1904, he was appointed director of the Department of Experimentation and Research at the Vienna School of Applied Arts. Some of his students became teaching assistants for the children's art classes. One assistant was Erika Giovanna Klien, who later emigrated to the United States and employed Cizek’s teaching methods at Stuyvesant High School and the Dalton School.[2] Another artist, Emmy Lichtwitz Krasso, was an assistant from 1933 to 1935, and later went to India where she started a children's art movement in the Mumbai schools.[4]
In November 1920, the children's art was exhibited at the British Institute for Industrial Art in Kingsbridge, England, and then toured the country.[5] In 1921 Francesca Wilson, a Birmingham teacher, exhibited the child art in London. This exhibition and those for the Save the Children Fund raised interest in the Child Art Movement.[6] They are also early examples of featuring art in raising funds and awareness for humanitarian causes.
Among those Cižek influenced was a Swiss painter and Bauhaus leader Johannes Itten.[7] Arthur Lismer, a Canadian artist, was also inspired by Cizek and John Dewey to found a Children's Art Centre at the Art Gallery of Toronto in 1933, and at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 1946. Cižek's life was described by Dr. Wilhelm Viola, his former student who became a lecturer at the Royal Drawing Society.[8] Alice Mavrogordato was a former student, who became a recognized abstract painter.[9]
References
- ^ Franz Cizek, Austria Forum
- ^ a b c Franz Cizek: Liberating the Child Artist
- ^ Franz Cizek Short Biography
- ^ "Portrait of an Artist". Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- ^ Inventing Child Art
- ^ "Franz Cizek Collection, Yorkshire Sculpture Park". Archived from the original on 2012-10-19. Retrieved 2012-04-22.
- ^ "About Bauhaus". Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- ^ Kelly, Donna Darling. Uncovering the History of Children's Drawing and Art. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004:84.
- ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2.
Further reading
- Stasny, Peter. "Cižek, Franz." In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, (accessed February 4, 2012; subscription required).
- Viola, Wilhelm. Child Art and Franz Cizek (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock), 1936.
- The classes of Franz Cizek, article by Mary V. Gutteridge
External links
- Artist Summary at artfact.com
- More of Dr. Franz Cizek's Students Archived 2013-10-14 at the Wayback Machine
- History of Art Education, Wikispaces Archived 2012-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
- Art Education Timeline 1912 Archived 2013-06-14 at the Wayback Machine
- Entry for Franz Cižek on the Union List of Artist Names