Everything about Josef V Clav Myslbek totally explained
Josef Václav Myslbek (
June 20 1848 –
June 2 1922) was a
Czech sculptor credited for founding of the modern Czech sculpting style.
Josef grew up poor in a suburb of
Prague. His family pushed him to become a shoemaker but he shirked the duty by getting a job with a succession of Czech sculptors. There was no school program for sculpting so he studied painting at the
Academy of Fine Arts in Prague instead. Afterwards he opened his own sculpting studio. He became greatly inspired by the French sculpting style as well as related arts such as photography and literature.
In
1871, Myslbek produced some of his greater works including a commission to do a set of statues for the National Theater. Later he'd do busts and monuments of several famous Czechs such as
Bedřich Smetana and
František Palacký.
By far Myslbek’s most famous work is the statue of
Saint Wenceslas, which is located in the center of
Wenceslas Square. It took him over 20 years to complete but has since become one of Prague’s most recognizable landmarks and a symbol of Czech statehood.
Josef Václav Myslbek influenced an entire generation of Czech sculptors and his students include
Stanislav Sucharda,
Jan Štursa,
Bohumil Kafka and Otokar Španiel.
Myslbek, along with such other Czech notables as
Bedřich Smetana,
Antonín Dvořák,
Karel Čapek,
Mikoláš Aleš,
Alfons Mucha,
Jan Štursa and Ladislav Šaloun is buried in Prague's National Cemetery.
References:
Stech, V. V.
Josef Vaclav Myslbek, Prague, 1954. Artia.
Further Information
Get more info on 'Josef V Clav Myslbek'.
|
External Link Exchanges
Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:
<a href="http://josef_v__clav_myslbek.totallyexplained.com">Josef Václav Myslbek Totally Explained</a>
Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned. |
