Draft:Josef Vinecký
Josef Vinecký | |
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| Born | |
| Died | |
| Nationality | Czech |
| Occupation(s) | sculptor, ceramist designer, university teacher |
| Movement | functionalism, abstraction |
| Spouse | Li Thon-Vinecká |
Josef Vinecký (February 20a 1882 Zámóstí – June 1 1949 Prague) was a Czech avant-garde sculptor, ceramist, designer and university teacher.
Biography
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He acquired his relationship with crafts from childhood in the workshop of his father, a master wheelwright.
He apprenticed in the workshop of Josef Mauder in Prague-Trój as a sculptor-stonemason and in 1902 went to the School of Applied Arts in Weimar, where he studied with Henry van de Velde, and worked for eight years, running a ceramics workshop. He also worked in Antwerp for Constantin Meunier. In the intentions of his training, he began in the historicist style with d at the highest technical level of crafts. He became acquainted with the artistic environment of the Bauhaus in Dessau, but did not reflect it in his work.
After the First World War in 1918, he settled in Wiesbaden and became friends with the avant-garde artists of the group Die blaue Vier ( Lyonel Feininger, Alexey von Jawlensky, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee), especially with Alexei Jawlensky. Through him, he already personally got to know the circle of artists of the Bauhaus. At that time, his work was developing from post-cubism to expressionism. He reached functionalism.
When his wife, the residential architect Li Thon-Vinecká, got a job at the Academy of Fine Arts and Crafts in Wrocław, he moved there too and two years later became a teacher, teaching material science and leading art and craft workshops. He designed functionalist designs using stone, wood and other materials, such as furniture. He then oriented his own work towards industrial design, especially furniture, in which he first used bent metal tubes and wood veneer, later experimenting with synthetic materials (plexiglass, polyester, trolon).[1] His work there culminated in an exhibition by the German Werkbund WUWA association in 1929. [2]After Adolf Hitler came to power, he was dismissed from the civil service as a degenerate artist and remained a freelance artist in Berlin until 1936. He then returned to Czechoslovakia, where his work had previously been promoted by Karel Herain. In 1936-1937 he worked in Prague. In 1937 Vinecký was appointed professor at the Academy of Arts and Crafts in Bratislava. In 1945-1949 he taught at the Institute of Art Education in Olomouc. In addition, he designed ceramics (tableware, vases), but also goldsmith's work.
He is buried in the cemetery in Rožďalovice.
Work (selection)
[edit]- Interior of the city baths Kaiser Friedrich Therme in Wiesbaden, majolica and marble tiles, 1911-1912
- Architectural arrangement of the garden with stone tiles in Wiesbaden, 1922
- Standing statue, stone, ceramic, metal and glass, 1923–1824
- Head, two versions, metal, patinated plaster, 1923
- Altar, tabernacle and baptismal font in the Marienkirche in Berlin–Karlshorst, 1925, marble, metal (destroyed in bombing in 1945, canteen restored 1985)
- Furniture for his own study at the Academy of Fine Arts and Crafts in Wrocław, 1928–1929
- Altar, tabernacle and baptismal font in the church of Our Lady of the Mountains in Bozkov, 1940
- Memorial to fallen soldiers in the First and Second World Wars in the park by the church in Bozkov, 1945
- Monstrance and chalice
Links
[edit]References
[edit]Literature
[edit]- Vladimír Šlapeta: Josef Vinecký, Umění a řemesla No. 4/1976, pp. 31–35.
- Alena Kavčáková: Josef Vinecký: 1882–1949. UP Olomouc 2008
- Anděla Horová (ed.), Nová encyklopedie českého výtvarného umění. [Vol. 2], N-Ž, Academia Praha 1995, p. 907 (entry Alena Kavčáková).
External links
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- Josef Vinecký v informačním systému abART
- Exhibition at the Museum of Art in Olomouc (2010) Archived 2022-10-05 at the Wayback Machine
- Czech Radio – Vltava: program Artist of pure truth of shape and material Josef Vinecký
