Lot 100

František Gross (1909 - 1985) SPOTLIGHTS

Industrial landscapes and nooks and crannies of the city periphery are among the most frequent subjects in the work of František Gross. The same is true of the civilian still life with reflectors, which excels in vivid colors, a feeling for the geometric arrangement of the displayed elements and the rhythm of light and darkness. Painter and graphic artist František Gross, he was one of the leading representatives of Group 42 and the creative group Radar. He graduated from CTU with prof. O. Blažíček and the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague with prof. F. Kysela, where he also met F. Hudeček, with whom he then had a long-standing friendship. In the years 1933-34, he became acquainted with surrealism, which in connection with its previous cubist tendencies became a good breeding ground for absurdity and grotesque. He organized the first exhibition with L. Zívr in his native Nová Paka.