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{{Infobox artist
| name = Josef Vinecký
| image_size = 180px
| birth_date =
| birth_place = [[Zámóstí u Rožďalovice]]<br />{{Flag|Austria-Hungary}}
| death_date = 
| death_place = [[Prague]]<br />{{Flag|Czechoslovakia}}
| nationality = Czech
| occupation = sculptor, ceramist<br>designer, university teacher
| movement = [[functionalism]], [[abstraction]]
| representative works = ceramics, furniture, sculptures
| spouse = Li Thon-Vinecká
}}
'''Josef Vinecký''' ([[February 20]]a [[1882]] [[Zámóstí (Rožďalovice)|Zámóstí]] – [[June 1|June 1]] [[1949]] [[Prague]]) was a Czech avant-garde sculptor, ceramist, designer and university teacher.

== Biography ==
[[File:Kaiser-Friedrich-Therme Foyer.JPG|thumb|265px|Foyer of the Imperial Baths in Wiesbaden, majolica and stone tiles, 1911-1912]]
[[File:StMarien Khst 8.JPG|thumb|Main altar of the Church of Our Lady, Berlin-Karlshorst, 1925]]
He acquired his relationship with crafts from childhood in the workshop of his father, a master wheelwright.

He apprenticed in the workshop of [[Josef Mauder|Josef Mauder]] in Prague-Trój as a sculptor-stonemason and in 1902 went to the School of Applied Arts in [[Weimar]], where he studied with [[Henry van de Velde|Henry van de Velde]], and worked for eight years, running a ceramics workshop. He also worked in Antwerp for [[Constantin Meunier|Constantin Meunier]]. In the intentions of his training, he began in the historicist style with d at the highest technical level of crafts. He became acquainted with the artistic environment of the [[Bauhaus]] in [[Dessau]], but did not reflect it in his work.

After the First World War in 1918, he settled in [[Wiesbaden]] and became friends with the avant-garde artists of the group ''Die blaue Vier'' ( [[Lyonel Feininger]], [[Alexey von Jawlensky]], [[Wassily Kandinsky]] and [[Paul Klee]]), especially with Alexei Jawlensky. Through him, he already personally got to know the circle of artists of the [[Bauhaus]]. At that time, his work was developing from post-cubism to expressionism. He reached [[functionalism|functionalism]].

When his wife, the residential architect Li Thon-Vinecká, got a job at the Academy of Fine Arts and Crafts in [[Wrocław]], he moved there too and two years later became a teacher, teaching material science and leading art and craft workshops. He designed functionalist designs using stone, wood and other materials, such as furniture. He then oriented his own work towards industrial design, especially furniture, in which he first used bent metal tubes and wood veneer, later experimenting with synthetic materials (plexiglass, polyester, trolon).<ref>ŠLAPETA, 1976, p. 33</ref> His work there culminated in an exhibition by the German Werkbund WUWA association in 1929. <ref>Wohnung und Werkraum. Werkbund Ausstellung Breslau 1929. In: Der Baumeister, Jg. 27, 1929, pp. 285–307, Tafel 85 / 86–100.</ref>After Adolf Hitler came to power, he was dismissed from the civil service as a ''degenerate artist'' and remained a freelance artist in Berlin until 1936. He then returned to Czechoslovakia, where his work had previously been promoted by [[Karel Herain]]. In 1936-1937 he worked in Prague. In 1937 Vinecký was appointed professor at the Academy of Arts and Crafts in Bratislava. In 1945-1949 he taught at the Institute of Art Education in Olomouc. In addition, he designed ceramics (tableware, vases), but also goldsmith's work.

He is buried in the cemetery in [[Rožďalovice|Rožďalovice]].

== Work (selection) ==
* Interior of the city baths '' Kaiser Friedrich Therme '' in [[Wiesbaden]], majolica and marble tiles, 1911-1912
* Architectural arrangement of the garden with stone tiles in [[Wiesbaden]], 1922
* Standing statue, stone, ceramic, metal and glass, 1923–1824
* Head, two versions, metal, patinated plaster, 1923
* Altar, tabernacle and baptismal font in the Marienkirche in [[Berlin–Karlshorst|Berlin–Karlshorst]], 1925, marble, metal (destroyed in bombing in 1945, canteen restored 1985)
* Furniture for his own study at the Academy of Fine Arts and Crafts in [[Wrocław]], 1928–1929
* Altar, tabernacle and baptismal font in the church of Our Lady of the Mountains in [[Bozkov]], 1940
* Memorial to fallen soldiers in the First and Second World Wars in the park by the church in Bozkov, 1945
* [[Monstrance]] and chalice

== Links ==

=== References ===
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=== Literature ===
* Vladimír Šlapeta: Josef Vinecký, ''Umění a řemesla'' No. 4/1976, pp. 31–35.
* Alena Kavčáková: ''Josef Vinecký: 1882–1949.'' UP Olomouc 2008
* Anděla Horová (ed.), ''Nová encyklopedie českého výtvarného umění. [Vol. 2], N-Ž'', Academia Praha 1995, p. 907 (entry Alena Kavčáková).

=== External links ===
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* [https://cs.isabart.org/person/2391 Josef Vinecký] v [[Archiv výtvarného umění|informačním systému abART]]
* [https://www.muo.cz/vystavy-2010/josef-vinecky-1882-1949-umelec-ciste-pravdy-tvaru-a-materialu--403/ Exhibition at the Museum of Art in Olomouc (2010)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221005150100/https://www.muo.cz/vystavy-2010/josef-vinecky-1882-1949-umelec-ciste-pravdy-tvaru-a-materialu--403/}}
* [https://vltava.rozhlas.cz/umelec-ciste-pravdy-tvaru-a-materialu-josef-vinecky-5137182 Czech Radio – Vltava: program ''Artist of pure truth of shape and material Josef Vinecký'']
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[[Category:Births on February 20]]
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