Vincenc Beneš

Vincenç Beneš ( born January 22, 1883 in Lišice, † March 27, 1979 in Prague) was a Czech painter and graphic artist of modernity.

Life

Beneš studied from 1902 at the Prague Academy of Arts and from 1904 to 1907 at the Academy of Fine Arts. He joined the group " Osma " ( "The Eight "), which had been founded by Emil Filla together with Bohumil Kubišta, Emil Artur Pitter man, Otakar Kubin, Bedřich Feigl, Max Horb, Willi Nowak and Antonín Prochazka. With these he showed the new art movements of Cubism and Fauvism an open mind and was like Filla, Kubin and Prochazka in 1913 by Herwarth Walden invited to the First German Autumn Salon in Berlin, where he showed a female torso, two etchings and two still lifes, a it was a picture in the catalog.

Later he turned to neoclassicism and produced paintings for the interior of the National Theatre, which in 1938 also with the stage set for the staging of the Czech National Opera commissioned him to The Bartered Bride.

From 1909 to 1911, then again from 1917 to 1949 he was a member of the by Josef Manes named, founded in 1887, Czech artist association Spolek výtvarných umělců Manes (SVU Manes ). 1933 Beneš became a member of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 1963 he was appointed in the CSSR "Artist of the People".