Czech Cubism

Czech Cubism
Top to bottom: Bohumil Kubišta, 1908, Self portrait; House of the Black Madonna by Josef Gočár; porcelain by Pavel Janák
Years activec. 1912–1914
LocationKingdom of Bohemia, Austria-Hungary
InfluencesCubism
InfluencedRondocubism

Czech Cubism (referred to more generally as Cubo-Expressionism)[1] was an avant-garde art movement of Czech proponents of Cubism, active mostly in Prague from 1912 to 1914. Prague was perhaps the most important center for Cubism outside Paris before the start of World War I.[2][3]

  1. ^ Craig Stephen Cravens, Culture and Customs of the Czech Republic and Slovaki, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006 ISBN 0313334129
  2. ^ Sadakat Kadri, Prague, Cadogan, Jun 20, 1991
  3. ^ Cooper, Philip. Cubism. London: Phaidon, 1995, p. 102. ISBN 0714832502