#Jan Zrzavy

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Jan Zrzavý (Czech, 1890-1977)

Horses under the moon, 1919 

Mixed media

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Jan Zrzavý (Czech, 1890 – 1977)

MARIA ,  1948

charcoal on Ingres paper, 35 x 26 cm

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Jan Zrzavy - Diana

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Czech painter and book illustrator Jan Zrzavý (1890-1977) as photographed in 1961 by Zdenko Feyfar from here. Like many painters across Europe Jan Zrzavy was enchanted by the idea of Paris as the capital of the painting world. He ran away to Paris as a young man and went home when he found nobody who spoke Czech in Paris. But even that limited exposure left its mark on him. He became a success in his native Czechoslovakia in spite of the authorities as much as because of them. Book illustration became a very good way of making a secondary living when his first vocation seemed to made unviable by the state. 

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Jan Zrzavý

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Girlfriends Jan Zrzavy (1890-1977) Oil on Canvas, 1923

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Jan Zrzavy - The Suffering (1916)

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Jan Zrzavy with ‘Kleopatra,1955. Vaclav Chochola. Gelatin silver print

black and white artists studio photography photographie

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Jan Zrzavy, Seated Girl (at Moravská galerie v Brně) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsailiVHELn/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=uv86k6l9vjpx

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Jan Zrzavý (Czech, 1890-1977)

Illustration for Clara d’Ellébuse (L’Histoire d’une ancienne jeune fille) by Francis Jammes, 1920

Lithograph

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Jan Zrzavý (Czech, 1890 – 1977)

Fantastic landscape, 1913 -14

oil on canvas 

The most famous of Zrzavý´s pictures are not spontaneous, quite the other way around – their composition was prepared very thoroughly. He painted especially during the night. He did not need the light of day and his motif in front of him, he was not a realist painter but worked by heart and based on his sketches.

He drew on the symbolism of the beginning of the 20th century. He was always himself, totally different. After his avantgarde beginnings, he could be mostly ranked among the artists preferring neoclassicism, New Objectivity, magic realism, we could also talk about metaphysical painting.

The poetic quality of Zrzavý’s work, his illustrations for Erben’s Bouquet and Mácha’s May, his melancholy and minor sadness affected the sensitive souls of the Czech men and women for decades. He was a living legend when he was walking with his cane and beret on the castle staircase to his atelier in the house of the sculptor Hana Wichterlová. People would recognize him in the street and address him. During the last period of his life, he was considered a truly national artist.

https://www.museumkampa.cz/vystava/jan-zrzavy-en/

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Jan Zrzavy - Odliv v Le Fret

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Hlava Dívky | Jan Zrzavy

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Kleopatra

Jan Zrzavy (1942-1957)

oil and gold on canvas