Lot 215

David Vávra (1957) PORTRAIT OF REYNEK

The poet, graphic designer, publisher and translator Bohuslav Reynek lived from 1892 to 1971. He belonged to a generation of Czech artists who sought the meaning of art in the harmony of personal conviction and faith with the natural order of the world and its aesthetics. An intellectual with a Christian orientation, he spent almost his entire life in his native Petrkov in the Havlíčkobrod region. Reynek began to draw and paint while studying at the Jihlava secondary school and was self-taught. Through oil paintings, expressionist linocuts, drawings, pastels and etchings, in the 1930s he came to the technique of drypoint. Around this time he also switched from landscape motifs to biblical ones. Reynek's work was not allowed to be published or exhibited from 1948 until the mid-1960s, and he did not receive full recognition until after the fall of communism. David Vávra (*1957) is a Renaissance-type personality - an architect, actor, poet and artist. He studied architecture at the Czech Technical University and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and is a co-founder of the legendary Sklep Theatre. He is known as an actor of successful films, as well as a guide of the Czech Television's roadmovie: Noisy Cities and Noisy Tracks.