The exhibition will commemorate the sculptor Sucharda and will exceptionally showcase his villa
Prague - This year's double jubilee anniversary of the significant Art Nouveau sculptor Stanislav Sucharda (1866 to 1916) will be celebrated with an exhibition in the original spaces of his villa. The building, designed by architect Jan Kotěra, is still in the hands of Sucharda's descendants, making it publicly inaccessible. A special exhibition titled Sucharda Private will open the villa to the public for just one week from May 10 to May 15, 2016.
The exhibition is organized by the Stanislav Sucharda Museum Foundation on the occasion of the one hundred years since Sucharda's death on May 5, 2016. In November, it will also mark 150 years since the sculptor's birth.
Sucharda's villa is a significant work from the early phase of Kotěra’s oeuvre, where influences of English architecture mingled with elements of domestic ethnography. Sucharda significantly contributed to the completion of both the exterior and the interiors of his home, which incorporated several of his relief works. The main rooms of the villa have been preserved in the state they were designed by Kotěra more than a hundred years ago, including interior details. This makes it the only nearly intact villa of this notable founder of Czech architectural modernism.
"We would like to remind people of the life and work of this extraordinarily active artist, who accomplished so much for the cultural world of his time and yet remains largely unknown to the Czech public today," says the artist's granddaughter Marta Sandtnerová, with whom visitors will also have the opportunity to meet during the exhibition.
"In addition to the colossal and controversial Palacký Monument, elegant medals, and reliefs, Sucharda's work includes a number of portraits, tombstones, and remarkable monument concepts. These are generally characterized by a distinctive interpretation of Czech history, unconventional iconography, and original compositional solutions. Unfortunately, even experts today are still unfamiliar with the stylistically progressive second phase of Sucharda's work," says art historian Martin Krummholz from the Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences.
Stanislav Sucharda came from a family in Nová Paka with an artistic tradition dating back to the late 18th century. His early expression in the style of Myslbek underwent significant transformation under the influence of French sculpture and modernism. Sucharda was a prominent participant in Prague's social life; at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, he led the Mánes association. Throughout his life, he taught at the Prague School of Applied Arts and briefly headed the newly established medal-making school at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts.
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The exhibition is organized by the Stanislav Sucharda Museum Foundation on the occasion of the one hundred years since Sucharda's death on May 5, 2016. In November, it will also mark 150 years since the sculptor's birth.
Sucharda's villa is a significant work from the early phase of Kotěra’s oeuvre, where influences of English architecture mingled with elements of domestic ethnography. Sucharda significantly contributed to the completion of both the exterior and the interiors of his home, which incorporated several of his relief works. The main rooms of the villa have been preserved in the state they were designed by Kotěra more than a hundred years ago, including interior details. This makes it the only nearly intact villa of this notable founder of Czech architectural modernism.
"We would like to remind people of the life and work of this extraordinarily active artist, who accomplished so much for the cultural world of his time and yet remains largely unknown to the Czech public today," says the artist's granddaughter Marta Sandtnerová, with whom visitors will also have the opportunity to meet during the exhibition.
"In addition to the colossal and controversial Palacký Monument, elegant medals, and reliefs, Sucharda's work includes a number of portraits, tombstones, and remarkable monument concepts. These are generally characterized by a distinctive interpretation of Czech history, unconventional iconography, and original compositional solutions. Unfortunately, even experts today are still unfamiliar with the stylistically progressive second phase of Sucharda's work," says art historian Martin Krummholz from the Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences.
Stanislav Sucharda came from a family in Nová Paka with an artistic tradition dating back to the late 18th century. His early expression in the style of Myslbek underwent significant transformation under the influence of French sculpture and modernism. Sucharda was a prominent participant in Prague's social life; at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, he led the Mánes association. Throughout his life, he taught at the Prague School of Applied Arts and briefly headed the newly established medal-making school at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts.
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