František Drtikol

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František Drtikol (3 March 1883 – 13 January 1961) was a Czech photographer known for his nudes and portraits.

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Life and work Drtikol was born in Příbram into a merchant family, the younger of three children, brother of sisters, Ema and Maria. He was married twice: in 1921-1926 to Ervín Kupferova, with whom he had a daughter, and then in 1942-1959 (until her death) to Jarmila Rambouskova. As a young man he wanted to be a painter, but his father directed him to train for a less precarious career as a photographer. In 1901, aged 18 and after an apprenticeship, he enrolled in the Teaching and Research Institute of Photography in Munich, a city which was major centre of Symbolism and Art Nouveau and which was influential on his career. From 1907 to 1910 he had his own studio in Příbram, but had little success. In 1910 he relocated to Prague, where he established a portrait studio on the fourth floor of a Baroque corner house at 9 Vodičkova, now demolished. In Prague he made many portraits of notable cultural figures. In the 1920s and 1930s, Drtikol received significant awards at international photo salons. He was a contributor to the illustrated weekly Pestrý týden. Jaroslav Rössler, an important avant-garde photographer, was one of his pupils. Drtikol's portraits and nudes…Citește mai mult

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Publications Z dvorků a dvorečků staré Prahy (From the Courtyards and Yards of Old Prague; 1911); Le nus de Drtikol (1929); Žena ve světle (Woman in the Light; Prague, 1938).

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Bibliography Fárová, Anna (1986). František Drtikol: Photograph des Art Deco. München: Schirmer/Mosel. ISBN 978-3-88814-159-1. Birgus, Vladimír (1997). František Drtikol: Modernist Nudes. San Francisco: Robert Koch Gallery. ISBN 978-0-929196-02-2. Birgus, Vladimír; Mlčoch, Jan (2001). Akt in Czech Photography. Prague: Kant. ISBN 978-80-86217-35-2. Bertolotti, Alessandro (2007). Books of Nudes. New York: Abrams. ISBN 978-0-8109-9444-7. Doleža, Stanislav; Fárová, Anna; Nedoma, Petr (1998). František Drtikol: fotograf, malíř, mystik. Praha: Galerie Rudolfinum. ISBN 978-80-902194-4-1. Funk, Karel (2001). Mystik a učitel František Drtikol: Pokyny pro duchovní cestu. Olomouc: Fontána. ISBN 978-80-86179-55-1. Mlčoch, Jan (1999). František Drtikol: Fotografie 1901–1914. Praha: KANT. OCLC 921287753.