Na vlnách / On wawes - Podebrady, Czech Republic
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N 50° 08.801 E 015° 07.229
33U E 508608 N 5554946
Plastika v podebradském lázenském parku / Sculpture in the spa park of Podebrady
Waymark Code: WMF1N5
Location: Středočeský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 08/07/2012
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[EN]
Prof. Jan Hána (1927—1994) was one of the last Czech sculptors educated in classical figural sculpture. He was born on 28th of October 1927 in a village Dobronice near a South Bohemian town Bechyne, where he worked at a local ceramics factory. After the war, he studied shortly at the State Ceramic School in Prague with Prof. V. Vokálek. Afterwards, he took up his sculpture studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague with Prof. Karel Pokorný (1945–51) and at the Academy in Zagreb in a formal Yugoslavia with Prof. A. Antunac (1947–48).
In 1983 Hána was promoted to a professorship of a sculpture studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. A year after he was honored a national artist and appointed a vice-chancellor of the Academy in 1985. In 1984 he was awarded the Order of Francesco de Miranda from the President of Venezuela for creating a Monument of Simon Bolivar which was mounted in Prague – Dejvice.
Hána was devoted to sculptural work done in conjunction with architecture as well as to free lyrical sculpture, mainly demonstrated by depictions of the female body. This was the genre closest to him, in which he worked largely outside of contractual obligations, in a rather discreet manner and yet still representing the most prolific aspect of his work. Woman – as Muse – was a subject that reflected the author’s original idea based on the ancient nonet of the Muses of art. This theme, on which he was already working at the beginning of the 1960s, was actually recurrent through his entire career.
His works are deposited in the National Gallery in Prague, the City Gallery Prague, the Czech Museum of Fine Arts in Prague, the Aleš South-Bohemian Gallery in Hluboká nad Vltavou, and many private collections in homeland and abroad.
[CS]
Prof. Jan HÁNA (1927-1994) byl jedním z posledních ceských socharu vycházejících z klasické figurální školy. Narodil se 28. ríjna 1927 v Dobronicích u Bechyne, kde zacal pracovat v tamejší keramické dílne. Po válce studoval krátce na Státní keramické škole v Praze u prof. V. Vokálka, a poté pokracoval ve studiu socharství na Akademii výtvarných umení v Praze u profesora Karla Pokorného (1945-51) a na Výtvarné akademii v Záhrebu v bývalé Jugoslávii u prof. A. Antunace (1947-48).
V roce 1983 byl jmenován profesorem speciálního socharského ateliéru na Akademii výtvarných umení v Praze. Následující rok byl pak jmenován národním umelcem a v roce 1985 rektorem AVU v Praze. V roce 1984 byl vyznamenán rádem prezidenta Venezuely „Francesco de Miranda“ za vytvorení pomníku Simónu Bolivarovi v Praze – Dejvicích.
Venoval se jak socharské práci spojené s architekturou tak volné lyrické plastice, kterou predstavovaly predevším ženské akty. Tento žánr jemu nejbližší vytvárel mimo oficiální zadání a byl v jeho tvorbe sice méne nápadný ale nejplodnejší.
Svými díly je zastoupen v Národní galerii v Praze, v Galerii hl.m.Prahy, v Ceském muzeu výtvarných umení (bývalá Stredoceská galerie), v Alšove jihoceského galerii na Hluboké a v dalších soukromých sbírkách doma i v zahranicí.
(www.janhana.cz)
Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Na vlnách (On wawes)
Figure Type: Human
Artist Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Jan Hána
Date created or placed or use 'Unknown' if not known: unknown
Materials used: metal
Location: Spa park
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