Toyen
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Marie Čermínová (September 21, 1902, Prague – November 9, 1980, Paris), known as Toyen, was a Czech painter, draftsman and illustrator, a member of the surrealist movement.
From 1919 to 1920 she attended the School of Fine Arts in Prague. She often worked closely with fellow Surrealist poet and artist Jindrich Styrsky. She referred to herself in the masculine case. Her sketches were frequently erotic. In the early 1920s she journeyed to Paris, and there became associated with André Breton. Upon returning to her native Prague, she helped found the Czech Surrealist Group.
Forced underground during the Nazi occupation and Second World War, she fled to Paris before the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia (1948). She worked with Breton and Benjamin Péret.
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