Program

This production is loosely inspired by motifs from Josef Váchal's life in his voluntary exile in Studeňany in the Jičín region, from his letters-novels addressed by him to Josef Hodek, Jakub Deml and others. And also Váchal's book "The Devil's Garden or the Natural History of Ghosts". This imaginative production aims to give high school students and adult viewers an insight into the life and work of one of our greatest artistic personalities of the 20th century - the graphic artist, painter, carver, writer and philosopher Josef Váchal (1884-1969). Among the most famous works of this artist, who was completely unappreciated during his lifetime, are the parodies of Braque literature, The Bloody Novel, the monumental bibliophile Šumava Dying and Romantic, and the illustrations for Jakub Demel's The Castle of Death.

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