Umění / Art 2012–6

The new issue of Umění / Art has been just published. Among the articles it contains, we would like to draw your attention to Jindřich Vybíral, Petr Wittlich or Marie Rakušanová. The Jindřich Vybíral’s study looks at the reconstructions, renovations, and new structures designed for the chateaux and residences of the nobility by Leopold Bauer in 1904–1910. This prominent Viennese architect, working at that time in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia executed five important projects of this kind (Zlín, Linhartovy, Kněžice, Ždánice and Roztěž). Petr Wittlich deals with the Czech sculptor Bohumil Kafka (1878–1942. In 1906 Rodin invited him to Meudon. Through Hébrard, whose company did the lost-wax casting of his sculpture, Kafka acquainted with the work of Rembrandt Bugatti and tried to equal him with his own work in the Jardin des Plantes. The study by Marie Rakušanová is devoted to the reflections on art, artists, and artistic activities written by the all-round creative individual Josef Váchal (1884–1969). This Czech artist incorporated forms of modern art into his magic theory of art, parallels to which can be found in the theories of Vasilij Kandinski, G. F. Harlaub, and Johannes Molzahn.

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