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Filla's postwar School of Monumental Painting at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design Prague
Patková, Lenka ; Klimešová, Marie (advisor) ; Lahoda, Vojtěch (referee)
An important figure in Czech art history Emil Filla (1882-1953), painter, graphic artist, sculptor, organizer of artistic life in interwar Czechoslovakia, art theorist and critic, at the end of his life, got one more new feature again beneficial to the entire Czech cultural scene. After his return from the concentration camp at Buchenwald, where he spent all six years of war, he became a professor at the newly established Academy of arts, architecture and design in Prague. His atelier of monumental painting has become a sort of post-war phenomenon. Up to one hundred students have undergone his training in a few years (he worked at the school 1945-1953). In this unsettled period after World War II generations retarded by the war were blend with the generations who have just reached the age to take university training. That is why postwar years are rich in celebrities. Emil Filla, for his extraordinary access to the education of young artists, his personal charisma and education, also brought into his art studio a number of real personalities, who, after the beginnings of the separate tracks artists, shaped the image of Czech art in the second half of the twentieth century. Pedagogical activities offered Filla space where he could ideally integrate their practical art activities with theoretical knowledge and...
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