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ID: 500042106
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500042106

 

Record Type: Person
Štursa, Jan (Czech sculptor and teacher, 1880-1925)

Note: Founder of the modern movement in Czech figurative sculpture. From 1894 to 1898 he studied at the School of Sculpture in Hořice, and under Josef Václav Mylsbek at the Prague Academy of Fine Art 1899-1904. In 1904 he received a grant to study abroad. In Paris he was influenced by Medardo Rosso, and came into contact with symbolist literature and art. He taught for most his adult life, beginning in 1908 as teaching assistant at the Academy of Art, then as professor as medal engraving in 1917. He was appointed head of the School of Sculpture there in 1919.

Names:
Štursa, Jan (preferred,V,index)
Jan Štursa (V,display)
Stursa, Jan (V,Dutch-P,NA)

Nationalities:
Czech (preferred)
Moravian

Roles:
artist (preferred)
sculptor
teacher
draftsman

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Nové Město na Moravě (Vysočina, Czech Republic) (inhabited place)
Died:  Prague (Praha, Hlavní Město, Czech Republic) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
student of ....  Myslbek, Josef Václav  
..................  (Czech sculptor, 1848-1922) [500076573]
teacher of ....  Durasova, Mary  
..................  (Czech sculptor, 1898-1982) [500129278]
teacher of ....  Fleischmann, Arthur  
..................  (British sculptor and ceramicist, 1896-1990) [500193340]
teacher of ....  Kršinić, Frano  
..................  (Croatian sculptor, 1897-1982) [500320843]
teacher of ....  Stefan, Bedřich  
..................  (Czech sculptor and medalist, 1896-1982) [500107058]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Štursa, Jan (I)

Biographies:
(Czech sculptor and teacher, 1880-1925) ..... [VP Preferred]
(Czech sculptor, 1880-1925) ..... [BHA]
(Czech sculptor 1880-1925) ..... [GRLPA]
( sculptor, 1880-1925) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
(Moravian sculptor, 1880-1925) ..... [Grove Art]
(Czech artist, born 1880) ..... [Belvedere]
(artist) ..... [Belvedere]
(Czech sculptor, 1880-1925) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Jan Štursa ........ [VP]
.....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Štursa, Jan ........ [BHA Preferred, Grove Art Preferred]
.......................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
.......................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
Stursa, Jan ........ [Belvedere Preferred, CL-Courtauld Preferred, GRLPA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP]
........................  Archiv des Belvedere database: Künstlerdokumentation (n.d.) 4223
........................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 315982
........................  Vollmer, Künstler-Lexikon 20. Jahrhunderts (1953-62)
........................  Witt Library, Authority files

Subject: ........ [Belvedere, BHA, CL-Courtauld, Gallery Systems, GRLPA, Grove Art, RKD, VP]
....................  Archiv des Belvedere database: Künstlerdokumentation (n.d.) 4223
....................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n81076031
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n81076031
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 315982
....................  Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Künstler (1980-1986)
....................  Vollmer, Künstler-Lexikon 20. Jahrhunderts (1953-62)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q700213
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 5 April 2005
.......... Prague: 1900-1938 (1997) 302
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