Vojtěch Hynais
Vojtěch Adalbert Hynais (also Albert; 14 January 1854,
Life
Hynais's father was a Czech tailor who had moved to Vienna, and did not want his children to receive a German education, so Hynais was taught at home. He began studying at the
Hynais lived in Paris from 1878 to 1893,
During the 1870s, art was being produced to decorate the under-construction
On 12 August 1881, one month before the National Theatre's scheduled opening, a fire completely destroyed the building. Hynais designed the new curtain; again, he used historical allegory to create a nationalist impression, and also to tell the story of the National Theatre. Slavia, the national embodiment, is shown receiving gifts from the nation; workers rebuild the theatre, while artists decorate it; national flags and symbols are shown all around.[7] Hynais had made the first sketches for the curtain while living in Montmartre; the winged figure is modelled on Suzanne Valadon.[8] Hynais's work for the National Theatre is what he is mostly remembered for; he was part of the "Generation of the National Theatre" together with Mikoláš Aleš, Václav Brožík, Julius Mařák and František Ženíšek, among others.[9] The work's style was likened to his teacher Feurbach's.[10]
Hynais created the first poster for the
Hynais worked for the Sèvres porcelain firm between 1889 and 1892 as a graphics artist, and became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague in 1894.
While living in Prague, Hynais was a founding member of the
In 1900, together with two of his students, Hynais painted the ceiling of the Pantheon in the Royal State Museum, Prague; Hynais's parts in particular were described as being "the best of what was created in the whole vast building and perhaps in all of Prague".[17]
In 1923, he was made an Officer of the
Work
During his Italian period, he painted mainly religious and mythological images, including for the
Hynais was interested in integrating the human and the natural, and particularly female nudes.[2] He was described as "a delicate poet depicting the beauty of the female body."[20] Hynais also bound together religious and aesthetic considerations.[21] He did, however, maintain some distance between his decorative-poetic work and his political-nationalist work.[22]
References
- . Die Graphischen Künste. 1: 18.
- ^ ISBN 9780719041617.
- ^ ISBN 9780691050522.
- ^ "Exposition des Beaux-Arts". Journal des Beaux-arts et de la Littérature (16): 123. 1885.
- ^ "Exposition Universelle". La Chronique des Arts et de la Curiosité (25): 196. 1889.
- ^ Alofsin 2006, p. 38.
- ^ Alofsin 2006, pp. 40–42.
- ^ a b Sayer 2014, p. 22-23.
- ISBN 9780691043807.
- ^ "Zur Wiener Dekorationsmalerei". Kunstgewerbeblatt. 12: 183. 1896.
- ISBN 9781845452025.
- ^ "Mucha als Illustrator". Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Vervielfältigende Kunst. 8: 33. 1897.
- ISBN 9780199745685.
- ^ "Sammlungen und Ausstellungen". Kunstchronik: Wochenschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe. 32: 524. 1894.
- ^ "Ordentliche Mitglieder" [Ordinary Members]. Ver Sacrum. 1: 28. 1898.
- ISBN 9783039108183.
- ^ "Von Ausstellungen und Sammlungen". Die Kunst für Alle: Malerei, Plastik, Graphik, Architektur. 12: 282–283. 1900.
- ^ Ilona Sármány-Parsons (2001). "The Image of Women in Painting". In Steven Beller (ed.). Rethinking Vienna 1900. p. 240.
- ISBN 9780892365968.
- ^ Czechoslovakia. University of California Press. 1949. p. 335.
- ISBN 9783826032073.
- ISBN 9783412142025.
- Alofsin, Anthony (2006). When Buildings Speak: Architecture as Language in the Habsburg Empire and Its Aftermath, 1867-1933. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226015071.
- Otto Brandes (1891). "Albert Hynais". Die Kunst für Alle: Malerei, Plastik, Graphik, Architektur. 8: 113–120.
- F Žákavec (March 1926). "Two Losses to Czech Art. Jan Štursa and Voytech Hynais". The Slavonic Review. 4 (12): 695–703. JSTOR 4202008.
- Marie Mžyková (1990). Vojtěch Hynais. Prague. ISBN 978-8020700070.)
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link - "Hynais, Voytěch (Adalbert)". Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950. Vol. 3. 1965. pp. 22–23.
- Sayer, Derek (2014). "Modernism, Seen from Prague, March 1937". Artl@s Bulletin. 3 (1).
External links
- Media related to Vojtěch Hynais at Wikimedia Commons
- Works by or about Vojtěch Hynais at Wikisource