Václav Boštík

Václav Boštík

Václav Boštík was born in 1913 in Horní Újezd, close to the city of Litomyšl. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where he studied in the studio of Willy Nowak. He was a member of the art group Umělecká beseda from 1942 whose activity was formally halted in 1972 and was revived after 1989. In 1960 Boštík, along with Václav Bartovský, initiated the establishment of the art group UB 12 which significantly influenced the development of Czech art during the 1960s (other members were, for example, Adriena Šimotová, Stanislav Kolíbal, Vladimír and Věra Janoušeks and Jiří John). As early as in the second half of the 1950s – when the official artistic scene was dominated by the forcefully imposed Social Realism – Boštík switched to total abstract work in which he solved the essential issues of existence through simple geometric shapes and play of light, given by color combinations. His canvases as if produced powerful spiritual fields and emanated cosmic energy. Everybody who has ever encountered them speaks about their magic and incredible power. Boštík’s works are part of permanent collections of many galleries. In the period of the Communist repression he, however, exhibited on solely an unofficial basis and there even was a period when he lived on restoring sgraffiti at the Litomyšl chateau. Still during the 1960s, his solo exhibition was held in the New Hall [Nová síň] gallery and shortly before 1970 he also managed to participate in the gallery board and co-develop the exhibition program of the Špála gallery under the leadership of the leading Czech art theoretician, Jindřich Chalupecký. He was part of exclusively unofficial exhibitions during the period of the so-called Czechoslovak normalization. Boštík’s official solo exhibition was organized by the Prague Municipal Gallery at the Old Town Hall in the spring of 1989. The integrity of Boštík’s work and life, influenced by his religious faith, was plain. He switched from the initial realistic painting to Abstraction as early as at the end of the 1930s. The painting surface represented a field force to him. On one hand, he created linear symmetrical paintings and clusters of color fields on the other hand. These positions were linked with Boštík’s unique reflection of natural and universal contexts. He talked with the eternity through his works. Boštík died in 2005 and his works are highly sought-after and highly appreciated on the art market both in the Czech Republic and abroad.

 

Artworks of this author offered by Prague Art & Design

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* 1913, Horní Újezd u Litomyšle, Czech Republic

Solo Exhibitions

2013 | For Many Ears, best of Fait Gallery Collection

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M.S. Bastian
Zdeněk Janošec Benda
David Böhm
Filomena Borecká
Erika Bornová
Václav Boštík
Cyril Bouda
Pavel Brázda
Veronika Bromová
Jan Brož
Rudolf Burda
Andrea Cihlářová
Michal Cimala
Tomáš Císařovský
Josef Čapek
Jiří David
Sonia Delaunay
Mark Dion
Stanislav Diviš
Jiri Georg Dokoupil
Veronika Drahotová
Max Ernst
Libor Fára
Gabina Fárová
Robert Filliou
František Foltýn
Roman Franta
Michal Gabriel
Pavla Gajdošíková
Ladislava Gažiová
Martin Gerboc
Otto Gutfreund
Zbyněk Havlín
Tomáš Hlavina
Anežka Hošková
Vladimír Houdek
Pavel Humhal
Marc Chagall
Martina Chloupa
Martin Janecký
Věra Janoušková
Mariana Jůdová
Irena Jůzová
Jan Kaláb
Lukáš Karbus
Jiří (Georg) Kars
Krištof Kintera
Martin Kocourek
Václav Kočí
Jiří Kolář
Jiří Kolář
Stanislav Kolíbal
Vladimír Kopecký
Antonín Kopp
Pavel Kopřiva
Jiří Kovanda
Petr Králík
Rudolf Kremlička
Václav Krůček
Jan Kubíček
Bohumil Kubišta
Alena Kučerová
Petr Kvíčala
Tomáš Lahoda
František Lesák
Petr Lysáček
Martin Mainer
Karel Malich
André Masson
Jiří Matějů
František Matoušek
Jiří Matoušek
Jan Merta
Jitka Mikulicová
Joan Miró
Petr Nikl
Ivona Nováková
Martin Nytra
Claes Oldenburg
Petra Ondreičková
Pasta Oner
Bet Orten
Petr Pastrňák
Petr Pavlík
A.R. Penck
Pablo Picasso
Petr Písařík
Daniel Pitín
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Míla Preslová
Antonín Procházka
Antonín Procházka
Ondřej Přibyl
Pavel Příkaský
Robert Rauschenberg
Niki Saint Phalle
Tereza Severová
Michal Singer
Vladimír Skrepl
Tomáš Smetana
Petra Steinerová
Antotnín Střížek
Roy Stuart
Jiří Surůvka
Jan Svoboda
Zdeněk Sýkora
Jan Šerých
Dušan Šimánek
Adriena Šimotová
Václav Špála
Tereza Talichová
Miloš Urbásek
Karel Vaca
Šimon Vahala
Markéta Vaňková
Mark Wallinger
Andy Warhol
Martin Zet
Jan Zrzavý
Josef Žáček