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VVF Project Summary-EN-9-2019 M. A. et B. A., Michala Frank Barnová, [email protected] enthusiastic art historian and art researcher Vlasta Vostřebalová Fischerová (1898-1963) Project Summary Her painting and drawing work was produced during less than 25 years, but it is among the most distinct Czech art expressions of the 1920s and 1930s. Her work was also particularly influenced by contemporaneous German artists — e.g. George Grosz, Otto Dix, Karl Hubbuch and others of New Objectivity movement and French art. During her life, Vlasta had only two individual public exhibition. Before the Second World War she has interrupted her career and after she never resumed her work again. Following Vlasta’s death, her legacy was commemorated (in cooperation with her son) by numerous exhibitions in Czechoslovakia and some in Germany and France as well. Her son’s death in 1991 made her paintings unavailable to the public for the next twenty-five years. Graduation from Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno in 2009. Michala’s MA thesis collected all existing drawings and paintings by Vlasta Vost#ebalová Fischerová and evaluated them for the very first time on a larger scale, as an individual monographic book of the artist has never been published before. Vlasta Vostřebalová Fischerová: Between Social Art and Magical Realism The three month long exhibition was held in the second biggest gallery in the Czech Republic — The Moravian Gallery in Brno. michala frank barnová — VVF 09 / 2019 page !1/!2 The exhibition presented around 200 drawings and 50 oil paintings. Drawings and paintings from a private collection were presented to the public for the first time in twenty-five years. A three month long repeat exhibition was held in respected City Gallery in Prague in 2014. In total, Vlasta’s exhibitions were visited by 5,033 people. More then 40 newspapers and journals published articles about these unique exhibitions. In the beginning, there was only a true passion to find answers as to who was one of the forgotten female artists. A lot of careful work led to my MA thesis and to exhibitions in two respected galleries and culminated in the first monograph about this phenomenal artist. michala frank barnová — VVF 09 / 2019 page !2/!2.
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