Lot 154

Jiří Bradáček (1922 - 1984) FISH

In 1939, he was admitted to the School of Applied Arts, where he studied from 1939 to 1944 in the studio of Karel Dvořák. He first worked at the Royal Dux porcelain factory in Duchcov, for which he designed small sculptures. In the early years of his work, Bradáček was influenced by the cubism and social civilism of Otto Gutfreund and the sculptures of Emil Filla. From 1967 he worked as an associate professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he headed the studio of applied sculpture. His pupils included Čestmír Suška, Magdalena Jetelová, Martin Zet and Michal Gabriel. He created a number of free and decorative sculptures for North Bohemian cities such as Děčín, Most, Teplice, Ústí nad Labem. Bradáček carved in stone in such a way that the material did not distant the depicted reality, so that the associative processes gave rise to meaningful elements and signs of more general validity. In the author's oversized sculptures, with the character of the attack of the natural element combined with the sensitivity of modern man, mechanical work on the material (traces of the chisel and the toothpick) manifests itself, in the offered fish sculpture bordering on torsality. It has been part of several exhibitions of the artist, including published publications.