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Jan Toorop and Czech Art
Pražanová, Kristýna ; Lahoda, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Wittlich, Petr (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the Dutch painter of Javanese descent, Jan Toorop (1858- 1928), and the traces of his influence in the Czech art scene. The first part contains the biography of this prominent Dutch painter, who arrived in the Netherlands at the age of 13. In the early 1880s, he went to Brussels to study, and participated in the cultural life there. During his life he spent several longer periods of time in England, where his wife Annie Hall came from. His name is closely associated with places like Amsterdam, Katwijk aan Zee, Domburg, Nijmegen, and The Hague, where he died. The second part deals with Toorop's artwork in which we can find realistic, impressionistic, as well as pointillistic works. But his probably most important work was created in his period of symbolism. After 1900, his artwork took on the style of mystical Catholicism. The last part of this thesis deals with Toorop's artwork in the context of Czech art scene and makes an attempt to find possible parallels between his work and the work of Czech artists.
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