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Frantisek Foltyn BIOGRAPHY
1891 Kralovske Stachy, Czechoslavakia - 1976. Known for: Organic abstraction, cubist and realist painting.
Along with his namesake František Kupka, Czech modern painter František Foltýn has been labeled one of most pre-eminent Czech painters of non-figurative art. The significance of Foltýn’s oeuvre* is,... Read full biography
Along with his namesake František Kupka, Czech modern painter František Foltýn has been labeled one of most pre-eminent Czech painters of non-figurative art. The significance of Foltýn’s oeuvre* is, among other things, proved by the recently increasing interest in it from the side of both... Read full biography
Along with his namesake František Kupka, Czech modern painter František Foltýn has been labeled one of most pre-eminent Czech painters of non-figurative art. The significance of Foltýn’s oeuvre* is, among other things, proved by the recently increasing interest in it from the side of both professional public and collectors. František Foltýn, native from the Šumava Mountains’ city of Královské Stachy, co-founded the Brno Group of Fine Artists and, from 1937 to his death, lived in the Moravian... Read full biography
Along with his namesake František Kupka, Czech modern painter František Foltýn has been labeled one of most pre-eminent Czech painters of non-figurative art. The significance of Foltýn’s oeuvre* is, among other things, proved by the recently increasing interest in it from the side of both professional public and collectors. František Foltýn, native from the Šumava Mountains’ city of Královské Stachy, co-founded the Brno Group of Fine Artists and, from 1937 to his death, lived in the Moravian capital of Brno. Foltýn’s early work, in which he interestingly reflected the Primitivist* variant of the New Objectivity movement, and which probably represents the most attractive and also the most original stage of his work, was created in the... Read full biography
Along with his namesake František Kupka, Czech modern painter František Foltýn has been labeled one of most pre-eminent Czech painters of non-figurative art. The significance of Foltýn’s oeuvre* is, among other things, proved by the recently increasing interest in it from the side of both professional public and collectors. František Foltýn, native from the Šumava Mountains’ city of Královské Stachy, co-founded the Brno Group of Fine Artists and, from 1937 to his death, lived in the Moravian capital of Brno. Foltýn’s early work, in which he interestingly reflected the Primitivist* variant of the New Objectivity movement, and which probably represents the most attractive and also the most original stage of his work, was created in the Slovak city of Košice between 1918 and 1923 and often had social and literary connotations. The international art scene of non-figur... Read full biography
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Along with his namesake František Kupka, Czech modern painter František Foltýn has been labeled one of most pre-eminent Czech painters of non-figurative art. The significance of Foltýn’s oeuvre* is, among other things, proved by the recently increasing interest in it from the side of both professional public and collectors.
František Foltýn, native from the Šumava Mountains’ city of Královské Stachy, co-founded the Brno Group of Fine Artists and, from 1937 to his death, lived in the Moravian capital of Brno.
Foltýn’s early work, in which he interestingly reflected the Primitivist* variant of the New Objectivity movement, and which probably represents the most attractive and also the most original stage of his work, was creat...But wait, there's more...
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