Kolář, Jiří

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The work of Jiří Kolář covered two areas of interest. He was a poet, and his work was close to Skupina 42. He is the author of Prometheus’s Liver, as a result of which he was sentenced to several months in prison in 1952. Alongside his poetry, he also made collages (or as he calls them, proláže, roláže, muchláže). Thanks to them, he became internationally recognized. His work was presented at Documenta in Kassel (1968), at the biennale of Sao Paolo (1969) and in the 1970s and 1980s his work was frequently shown at the Guggenheim museum in New York.

Kolář lived in Czechoslovakia until 1979. After a year-long fellowship in Western Berlin, he moved to Paris. This change was not approved by the Czechoslovak authorities, and he stayed in Paris illegally. In 1984 Kolář received French citizenship. He returned to Prague in 1999.

Kolář was important not only as an artist, but also as someone who built communities. He was part of Skupina 42, Umělecká beseda and Křižovatka. After his release from prison in 1953, he started a tradition of the so-called Kolář’s table in Café Slavia (Prague) where independent intellectuals and artists gathered.

Founder

Jiří and Běla Kolář Collection

Location

Berlin, Germany
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Kladno, Czech Republic
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Paris, France
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Praha, Prague, Czech Republic
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Website

http://www.artlist.cz/jiri-kolar-3993/

Birth place

Protivín, Czech Republic

Birth date

1914

Date of death

2002

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Jiří and Běla Kolář Collection

Author(s) of this page

Lomová, Johana

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Jiří and Běla Kolář Collection

References

Bergmanová, Marie. 2001. Jiří Kolář sběratel = Jiří Kolář collector : Veletržní palác 19. října 2001-3. února 2002. Praha: Gallery.

Artlist.cz. 2019. "Jiří Kolář." Accessed January 16. https://www.artlist.cz/jiri-kolar-3993/.

Kolář, Jiří, Marie Klimešová, and Milena Kalinovská. 2018. Kolář: úšklebek století = grimace of the century. V Praze: Národní galerie v Praze.

ÚČL AV ČR. 2015. "Slovník české literatury po roce 1945: Jiří Kolář." Last modified August 30. http://www.slovnikceskeliteratury.cz/showContent.jsp?docId=22.

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