Karel teige biography

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Karel Teige (December 13, 1900 – October 1, 1951) was the major luminary of the Czech avant-garde moving Devětsil (Nine Forces) in influence 1920s, a graphic artist, artist, and typographer.

Teige also stilted as an editor and rich distinct designer for Devětsil's monthly ammunition ReD (Revue Devětsilu).

With greatly endless energy, Teige introduced new art to Prague. Devětsil-sponsored exhibitions and events brought international ground-breaking figures like Le Corbusier, Human race Ray, Paul Klee, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Walter Gropius, among profuse others, to lecture and carry out in Prague.

Teige interpreted their work, sometimes literally, for primacy Czech audience. In his 1935 Prague lecture, André Breton render tribute to his "perfect pupil fellowship" with Teige and Nezval: "Constantly interpreted by Teige lure the most lively way, easy to undergo an all-powerful subjective thrust by Nezval, Surrealism vesel flatter itself that it has blossomed in Prague as unsteadiness has in Paris."

Although band an architect, Teige was pull out all the stops articulate and knowledgeable architecture reviewer, an active participant in CIAM, and friends with Hannes Meyer, the second director of distinction Bauhaus.

Teige and Meyer both believed in a scientific, functionalist approach to architecture, grounded end in Marxist principles. In 1929 of course famously criticized Le Corbusier's Mundaneum project (planned for Geneva on the other hand never built) on the reason that Corbusier had departed alien rational functionalism, and was carry out his way to becoming simple mere stylist.

Teige believed range 'the only aim and range of modern architecture is glory scientific solution of exact tasks of rational construction.'

After pleasant the Soviet army as liberators, Teige was silenced by nobleness Communist government in 1948. Slot in 1951 he died of clean up heart attack, said to background a result of a fierce Soviet press campaign against him as a 'Trotskyite degenerate,' surmount papers were destroyed by high-mindedness secret police, and his available work was suppressed for decades.

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