Name Bohumil Kubista | Role Artist | |
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Died November 27, 1918, Prague, Czech Republic | ||
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Bohumil Kubista (1884, Vlckovice, Bohemia – 1918) was a Czech painter and art critic, one of the founders of Czech modern painting. He studied at the School of Applied Arts in Prague, but left in 1906 to study at the Reale Istituto di Belle Arti in Florence. He, Emil Filla, Antonin Prochazka, and five others founded Osma (The Eight), an Expressionist-oriented group of artists.
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Kubista came to his individual expression gradually, at first he was influenced by the work of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cezanne. He educated himself in philosophy and optics, and studied colour and the geometrical construction of painting.
Kubista, like several other Czech artists of his generation, was strongly affected by the 1905 Edvard Munch exhibition in Prague. Together with Emil Filla he established the artistic group Osma in 1906 or 1907. He worked in an Expressionist style until 1910, and exchanged ideas with German painters in Die Brucke. He also developed visual ideas learned from the work of Cezanne. His later style (approximately from 1911) was strongly influenced by Expressionism and Cubism. Expressionist elements, particularly his use of color but also his subject matter, immediately distinguish Kubista’s Cubist work from that of founding Paris Cubists Picasso, Braque and the Section d'Or. He studied color theory, analyzing the harmonic and compositional principles of painters such as El Greco, Eugene Delacroix, Vincent van Gogh, and Edvard Munch. He also paid close attention to mathematical and geometric principles. Around 1911, he became acquainted with Jan Zrzavy and the artistic group Sursum.
Kubista joined the army in 1913. He died prematurely during the global 1918 flu pandemic which ravaged Europe after the First World War.
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