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1884 - 1969. Known for: Painting.
At the beginning of the 20th century, he was in contact with representatives of Catholic modernism, but later he rejected Christianity and his inspiration shifted to co-cultism. Unanchored experience... Read full biography
At the beginning of the 20th century, he was in contact with representatives of Catholic modernism, but later he rejected Christianity and his inspiration shifted to co-cultism. Unanchored experience of the world was manifested in Váchal's work stylized into a decadent aesthetic influenced by... Read full biography
At the beginning of the 20th century, he was in contact with representatives of Catholic modernism, but later he rejected Christianity and his inspiration shifted to co-cultism. Unanchored experience of the world was manifested in Váchal's work stylized into a decadent aesthetic influenced by anarchism. Reading the German philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche also contributed to Kje's thought development, in which he found the theme of the curse of the material world, which... Read full biography
At the beginning of the 20th century, he was in contact with representatives of Catholic modernism, but later he rejected Christianity and his inspiration shifted to co-cultism. Unanchored experience of the world was manifested in Váchal's work stylized into a decadent aesthetic influenced by anarchism. Reading the German philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche also contributed to Kje's thought development, in which he found the theme of the curse of the material world, which he reflected in his author's books. In contrast to the decadent style of the Modern Revue artists, Váchal did not try to aestheticize his works, on the contrary, his style bore the signs of the primitivism of the Assyrian expression. After completing... Read full biography
At the beginning of the 20th century, he was in contact with representatives of Catholic modernism, but later he rejected Christianity and his inspiration shifted to co-cultism. Unanchored experience of the world was manifested in Váchal's work stylized into a decadent aesthetic influenced by anarchism. Reading the German philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche also contributed to Kje's thought development, in which he found the theme of the curse of the material world, which he reflected in his author's books. In contrast to the decadent style of the Modern Revue artists, Váchal did not try to aestheticize his works, on the contrary, his style bore the signs of the primitivism of the Assyrian expression. After completing a short study in the landscape studio of Alois Kalvoda and the school of figure painting of Rudolf Bém, he created paintings inspired by theosophy, whi... Read full biography
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