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1917 Prague, Czechoslavakia - 1987 Prague, Czechoslavakia. Known for: Fable, fairy tail, ethnic culture themed ceramics.
Jan Kutálek was born in Prague on 20 July, 1917. After studying painting and sculpture, he concentrated exclusively on ceramics from 1940, when he discovered the creative possibilities of clay. From... Read full biography
Jan Kutálek was born in Prague on 20 July, 1917. After studying painting and sculpture, he concentrated exclusively on ceramics from 1940, when he discovered the creative possibilities of clay. From the very beginning he worked on figural ceramics and found his own means of expression in a... Read full biography
Jan Kutálek was born in Prague on 20 July, 1917. After studying painting and sculpture, he concentrated exclusively on ceramics from 1940, when he discovered the creative possibilities of clay. From the very beginning he worked on figural ceramics and found his own means of expression in a synthesis of plastic shape and color. It would be difficult to span the whole range of his themes. Fairy-tales, fables, customs, dances and songs, music and poetry, tales from ancient and Slav mythology,... Read full biography
Jan Kutálek was born in Prague on 20 July, 1917. After studying painting and sculpture, he concentrated exclusively on ceramics from 1940, when he discovered the creative possibilities of clay. From the very beginning he worked on figural ceramics and found his own means of expression in a synthesis of plastic shape and color. It would be difficult to span the whole range of his themes. Fairy-tales, fables, customs, dances and songs, music and poetry, tales from ancient and Slav mythology, medieval legends, typical characters from the Czech and Moravian country-side, fairs, circuses, jazz, religious, legendary and exotic themes, animals and birds, are all but a small part of Kutálek's inner world, of his poetic imagination. The artist's... Read full biography
Jan Kutálek was born in Prague on 20 July, 1917. After studying painting and sculpture, he concentrated exclusively on ceramics from 1940, when he discovered the creative possibilities of clay. From the very beginning he worked on figural ceramics and found his own means of expression in a synthesis of plastic shape and color. It would be difficult to span the whole range of his themes. Fairy-tales, fables, customs, dances and songs, music and poetry, tales from ancient and Slav mythology, medieval legends, typical characters from the Czech and Moravian country-side, fairs, circuses, jazz, religious, legendary and exotic themes, animals and birds, are all but a small part of Kutálek's inner world, of his poetic imagination. The artist's unfailing and constantly regenerated invention overcomes all technical problems, all questions of format and dimensions. His perfe... Read full biography
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Art Media
- •Chalk
- •Clay, Earthenware Vessels
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Painting on Glass, Glass Design, Studio Glass Art