Čeněk Pražák
Modern Time / Moderne Zeit
1962, oil on canvas, 118 x 138 cm
Orpheus Head / Kopf des Orpheus
1962, oil on canvas, 90 x 70 cm
Cheb Museum, Czech Republic
Odysseus Head I / Kopf des Odysseus I
1962, oil on canvas, 80 x 65 cm
Ministry for Culture, Czech Republic
Time Composite / Zeitkomposition
1963, oil on canvas, 74.5 x 93 cm
Museum of Eastern Bohemia in Hradec Králové, CZ
Hus-Alley / Hus-Gasse
1963, oil on canvas, 102 x 73 cm
East Bohemian Gallery, Museum Pardubice, CZ
Celek II
1964, oil on canvas, 100 x 73.5 cm
Museum Leitmeritz
Organic Landscape I / Biologische Landschaft
1964, oil on canvas, 120 x 140 cm
The National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Organic Landscape / Biologische Landschaft
1965, oil on canvas, 130 x 96 cm
Museum Leitmeritz
The Death of John F. Kennedy
1965, oil on canvas, 170 x 150 cm
lost / verschollen
Organic Landscape / Biologische Landschaft
1966, oil on canvas, 140 x 130 cm
lost / verschollen
Signal Pendulum / Signalpendel
1966, oil on canvas, 220 x 150 cm
The National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic
Organic Landscape / Biologische Landschaft
1966-68, oil on canvas, 130 x 110 cm
Private collection, Czech Republic
Organic Landscape / Biologische Landschaft
1966-68, oil on canvas, 130 x 110 cm
Private collection, Czech Republic
Organic Landscape / Biologische Landschaft
1967, oil on canvas, 130 x 96 cm
verschollen / lost
Organic Landscape / Biologische Landschaft
1967, oil on canvas, 80x 170 cm
Private collection, Germany
Zeichenlandschaft
1967, oil on canvas, 115 x 95 cm
Museum Roudnice nad Labem, Czech Republic
Signal
1968, oil on canvas, 170 x 135 cm
Private collection, Prague, Czech Republic
Organic Landscape / Biologische Landschaft
1968, oil on canvas, 84 x 160 cm
Landesgalerie Linz, Austria
Tryptich on Freedom / Tryptichon über die Freiheit
1968, oil on canvas, 200 x 170 cm
lost / verschollen
Organic Landscape / Biologische Landschaft
1969, oil on canvas, 110 x 89 cm
Museum Raudnitz, Czech Republic
Horizons / Horizonte
1969, oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm
Private collection, Switzerland
Current Movement / Gegenwärtige Bewegung
1969, oil on canvas, 150 x 120 cm
lost / verschollen
Nodus
1969, oil on canvas, 120 x 100 cm
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Dynamic
1976, oil on canvas, 140 x 120 cm
Ricola collection, Laufen, Switzerland
Square - Circle - Horizontal
1976, oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm
Ricola Collection, Laufen, Switzerland
Dynamic VI
1985, oil on canvas, 140 x 120 cm
EN
... Whilst with the "Organic Landscapes", as the title suggests, the natural or nature like forms are still being used, he arrives at abstraction after his first solo show in Prague in 1964. Here, whether in paintings or relief, the line is the single dominating element for the first time. An almost constructivist formal structure underlies the work, in which spectral lines define the pictorial action... (excerpt from the lead text in the monograph)
DE
[...] Sind die "Biologischen Landschaften", wie der Titel assoziiert, noch unter Verwendung naturgemässer oder naturähnlicher Formen entstanden, so gelangt er nach seiner ersten Einzelausstellung, 1964 in Prag, zu abstrakten Werken. Hier wird, ob in Gemälden oder Reliefs, zum ersten Male die Linie zum alleinig dominierenden Element. Den Arbeiten liegt ein fast konstruktives Formgefüge zugrunde, in dem Spektrallienien das Bildgeschehen bestimmen... JM (Ausschnitt aus dem Leittext der Monographie)
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