Lot 91

Vincenc Makovský (1900 - 1966) TOMÁŠ GARRIGUE MASARYK

This bust of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, was created by the important sculptor Vincenc Makovský. After studying painting under Jakub Obrovský and Karel Krattner and sculpting under Bohumil Kafka and Jan Štursa at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (1919-1926), he travelled to Paris on a French government scholarship to work under Antoine Bourdelle. He spent World War II in Zlín, where he co-founded the Art School and was the head of the Instrument and Machine Forming department. After the war he settled in Brno-Obřany, where he lived and worked up until his death. He was a member of the Mánes Union of Fine Artists (from 1930) and Czech Academy of Arts and Sciences, was a founding member of the Czechoslovak Surrealist Group and a professor at the University of Technology in Brno (from 1947) and Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (from 1952). He has created a number of public artworks, primarily monuments, mostly in Brno but also around the Czech Republic and abroad. His son, Zdeněk Tomáš Makovský (* 1946), is also a sculptor and architect. The statue is an original cast from the estate of the foundry of Franta Anýž.