A leading theoretician and proponent of the Czech avant-garde during the very active decades of the 1920’s and 30’s, Karel Teige was involved in Devětsil and was a co-founder of the Czech Surrealist Group along with Toyen, Jindřich Štyrský and Vítězslav Nezval.
Teige created over 300 collages in private during the last two decades of his life, frequently featuring elements of a female figure forming part of the landscape. Subject to a brutal smear campaign and constant vilification, Teige was hounded to an early death by the Stalinist controlled government in 1951. Even this didn’t satisfy the authorities who ransacked his house, destroyed suspect unpublished writings and continued to suppress his published writings for decades to come. These factors probably contributed to the suicides of both his wife and mistress shortly afterwards.
The collages only came to light after samizdat surrealist publications ended up in Germany during the 1960’s.
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These are really cool. I recognize a couple of these from some of your previous posts. And there’s even a lily! Brilliant!
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I have always been very taken with Teige’s work and I cannot believe that I haven’t written about his collages before as they have been very influential lately with the whole vintage retro collage found on Tumblr and elsewhere. So I decided to remedy the situation. Glad you like Lily.
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Very much. I especially like the “face” body suit and the view through the doorway. What a fantastic vision. Really like this collection.
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I like my Czech Surrealists, they are excellent.
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I remember the one at the bottom left, it illustrated your poem “Super-Imposed Love”.
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It did indeed…the Czech Surrealists were very strong with collage.
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Beautiful and surreal, Bodyscapes is the perfect title for this collage. It is a pity that this artist was villainize to the this degree by the Stalinist government. These are so very unique, I enjoyed.
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Thank you Miss Heart… they are very much of their time but also ahead of their time. A lot of recent collage is definitely influenced by his work.
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An interesting artist and artwork, thank you for the background on this.
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I might post about his experiments in typography at some point. My pleasure.
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mmm-marvellous. You should be a curator.
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I wish!
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Reblogged this on lampmagician.
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Thank you my friend.
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I’ve just rebloged a jewel 👍🤟🙏
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Thank you you are too kind.
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