Jakub Schikaneder
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Jakub (or Jakob) Schikaneder (February 27, 1855 in Prague – November 15, 1924 in Prague) was a painter from Bohemia.
Biography
Schikaneder came from the family of a German customs office clerk. Despite the family's poor background, he was able to pursue his studies, thanks in part to his family's love of art; an ancestor was Urban Schikaneder, the elder brother of the librettist Emanuel Schikaneder. After having completed his studies in Prague and Munich (1871–1879), Schikaneder, alongside Emanuel Krescenc Liška, was involved in the furnishing of the royal box in the National Theatre in Prague; however, this work was lost in a fire in 1881. After his work in the National Theatre, Schikaneder traveled through Europe, visiting Germany, England, Scotland, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy and France. From 1891 until 1923 he taught in Prague's Art College. Schikaneder counted amongst those who admired the Munich School of the end of the 19th century.
He died in 1924 and was buried in Vinohrady Cemetery in Prague.[1]
Work
Schikaneder is known for his soft paintings of the outdoors, often lonely in mood. His paintings often feature poor and outcast figures and "combined neoromantic and naturalist impulses."[2] Other motifs favoured by Schikaneder were autumn and winter, corners and alleyways in the city of Prague and the banks of the Vltava – often in the early evening light, or cloaked in mist. His first well-known work was the monumental painting Repentance of the Lollards (2.5m × 4m, lost). The National Gallery in Prague held an exhibition of his paintings from May 1998 until January 1999.
Selected works
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The Sad Way, 1886/87 -
Weeder, 1887 -
Company on the Terrace, 1887 -
All Soul's Day, 1888 -
Murder in the House, 1890 -
Evening Street, 1906 -
Evening in the Garden, 1907–09
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References
- ^ Vinohrady Cemeteries, MyCzechRepublic.com, retrieved 20 November 2013
- ^ Zusi, Peter. "'Wie ein Kind ist unser Volk': Hybrid Identity and National Consciousness in Rilke's 'Zwei Prager Geschichten,'" The German Quarterly , Summer 2006, Vol. 79, No. 3, pp. 329-346, at 343.
Further reading
- Tomáš Vlček: Schikaneder: Jakub Schikaneder, Prague painter of the turn of the century ("A thematic guide to a retrospective exhibition, National Gallery in Prague, Collection of Old Masters, Wallenstein Riding School in Prague, May 15, 1998 – January 10, 1999"). Prague: National Gallery, 1998.
External links
- (in French) Radio Prague – extensive Biography
- Exhibition in the Moravian Gallery in Brno
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