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Artists & Producers

Vojtěch Preissig (1873–1944)

Czech graphic artist and painter Vojtěch Preissig was a member of the Mánes Fine Artists’ Association. He was active in Paris between 1898 and 1902, briefly in Alphonse Mucha’s studio. He worked for the magazines L’Art décoratif, Frou-Frou and L’Assiette au beurre. A significant personality of modern Czech graphic art, book design and typography, Preissig was involved in the Czech resistance during both world wars.

Franta Anýž (1876–1934)

Franta Anýž specialised in metalworking. He was an excellent designer in his own right, but also realised the works of countless other artists, performing commission work from 1902 in his own studios. Shortly before the outbreak of the First World War, he opened a foundry in Prague’s Holešovice district. He was active in the artistic crafts, in decorative sculpture and in the factory production of modernly conceived objects of everyday use, especially lamps. He participated in the completion of Prague’s St Vitus Cathedral. The Art Nouveau works from the workshop of Franta Anýž combine exuberant and even spontaneously conceived vegetation with effervescent energy.

Josef Ladislav Němec (1871–1943)

Art schools played a major role in the spread of Art Nouveau style in Czech jewellery. In Prague, this was the School of Applied Arts, but also the Continuing Vocational School for jewellers, goldsmiths, silversmiths, engravers and belt-makers, which was attended obligatorily by adepts of the relevant crafts from Prague and its surroundings. Initially, the school’s board included František Křižík, among others. A leading personality of practical education was the goldsmith Josef Ladislav Němec. The magazine Volné směry devoted a large amount of space to school works realised according to Němec’s designs.

Vocational School in Turnov

In 1884, the Vocational School for the Treatment of Gemstones was founded in Turnov, the centre of the gemstone region in northern Bohemia. The school’s programme was soon expanded to two additional fields, and by the end of the 19th century the institute’s name was changed to the Imperial Vocational School for Stone-Cutting, Goldsmithing and Jewellery Making in Turnov. The school still operates today, and for the duration of its existence it has been the only vocational school in the Bohemian lands specialising in glyptics (the art of cutting and engraving precious stones). The Turnov school’s fundamental contribution to Czech Art Nouveau jewellery, however, can be found in particular in the area of its work with cut Bohemian garnet.

Bohemian Garnet in Art Nouveau

Bohemian garnet, also called pyrope, is a precious stone of a uniquely deep red hue reminiscent of the colour of blood. Unlike other types of garnets, it is found only in the area of the Bohemian lands, usually in the form of small grains. It was therefore used in the past as a group stone. The monochrome surfaces of the jewels are formed by individual stones set right next to one another. The effect of this tiled or pavé setting was employed abundantly during the 19th century, and garnet jewellery became one of the symbols of the resurgent nation and its culture. Jewellery making in the Art Nouveau period followed naturally from traditional techniques and the significance of Bohemian garnet. The pulsating curves of the combs, brooches, pendants and clasps form an undivided current of deep red garnets.

Ornament

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