Czech Cubism

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Czech Cubism was avant-garde art movement of Czech proponents of the Cubism active mostly in Prague from 1910 to 1914.

Members of this movement realised the epochal significance of Cubism of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque and attempted to extract it's components for their own work in all branches of artistic creativity - especially painting and architecture.

After World War I when Czechoslovakia was founded in 1918 Czech Cubism gradually developed into Czech Rondocubism which was more decorative as it was influenced by traditional folk ornaments to celebrate the revival of Czech national independence.

The most notable participants of this movement were the painters Emil Filla, Antonín Procházka, Josef Čapek, the sculptor Otto Gutfreund, the writer Karel Čapek, and the architects Pavel Janák, Josef Gočár, Vlastislav Hofman and Josef Chochol.

[edit] See also

• Cubism

[edit] References

• The Czech Cubism Foundation (English)
• What is Czech Cubism? (English)