Pantomima (Pantomime)
Catalogue
- Year
- 1924
- Dimensions
- 25.4 × 16.6 cm (10 × 6 1/2 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Jindřich Štyrský
Artist
Photography
Jindřich Štyrský was a Czech painter, photographer, and collagist active in the interwar avant-garde, closely associated with Surrealism and the Czech Surrealist Group founded in 1934. Working in oil, collage, and photomontage, he created dreamlike compositions that combined figurative imagery with abstract formal disruption, often exploring themes of desire, the unconscious, and eroticism. His practice ranged from canvas painting to experimental photography and prints. Štyrský died in Prague in 1942 at age 43, leaving a body of work that remained influential in Central European modernism.
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Neviditeliná Moskva (Invisible Moscow)
1935 · Printed book with two-color photomontage cover, designed typography, and title page vignette; three photographs tipped in
Untitled, from On the Needles of These Days (Na jehlách těchto dní ) (1945)
1934 · Gelatin silver print
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1934 · Gelatin silver print
Emilie prichází ke mne ve snu (Emilie Comes To Me In A Dream)
1933 · Book with original photomontages tipped in
Erotická revue
1930 · Book with photomontage and hand-colored plates; gilt-lettered leather-backed marbled boards
Pruvodce Parízí a okolím (Guide to Paris and Its Environs)
1927 · Book with 22 photographs and 14 maps, photomontage wrappers
Record
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- Jindřich Štyrský
- Year
- 1924
- Dimensions
- 25.4 × 16.6 cm (10 × 6 1/2 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1924-126204
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified