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Jan Švankmajer
Jan Švankmajer is a Czech retired filmmaker, animator, writer, playwright and artist. He draws and makes free graphics, collage, ceramics, tactile objects and assemblages. In the early 1960s, he explored informel, which later became an important part of the visual form of his animated films. He is a leading representative of late Czech surrealism. In his film work, he created an unmistakable and q…
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culture · Czech filmmaker (born 1934) · film director · sculptor · animator · photographer · screenwriter · painter · poet · puppet designer · graphic artist · ceramicist · also Jan Švankmajer, Jan Svankmajer, Svankmajer, Švankmajer
Born 4 September 1934 · Q316165
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2018· 1 entry
And had its UK premiere at the Tate Modern
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2016· 1 entry
Followed up his cartographic series with the collages', in which he pasted depictions of skin diseases from a medical atlas into historical maps (Sick Maps, 2016)
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2012· 1 entry
Best Artwork, Sun in a Net Award, Slovak FTA - (Surviving Life)
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2011· 1 entry
The Guardian: Jan Švankmajer: Puppets and politics
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded Czech Lion Award for Best Stage Design for Surviving Life (2010).
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Annual award ACFK presented by Association of Czech Film Clubs (2008).
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2007· 2 entries
The Guardian: Jan Švankmajer - The Complete Short Films
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The Guardian: Lunacy, directed by Jan Svankmajer
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2003· 1 entry
FAMU awarded Jan Švankmajer the title of Doctor honoris causa
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2002· 1 entry
Annual Czech Film Critics Award Kristián - (Little Otik)
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded Czech Lion Award for Best Stage Design for Little Otik (2001).
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2000· 1 entry
Created a series of collages entitled Yet Nothing Happens, in which the red head of the devil appears as a memento in romantic illustrations from the turn of the century
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1999· 1 entry
Jointly with Eva Švankmajerová, he created a series of coloured lithographs with fantasy themes as part of a collective game invented by the Surrealists (Cadavre exquis, 1999)
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1998· 1 entry
Jan Švankmajer became interested in Art Brut artists and became a collector of these works and together with Eva Švankmajerová began to create medium drawings
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1996· 1 entry
Švankmajer made Conspirators of Pleasure, a black comedy about people who follow the principle of pleasure and perform harmless imaginative perversions and rituals
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1994· 3 entries
Awarded Czech Lion Award for Unique Contribution to Czech Film (1994).
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Švankmajer's second feature film The Faust was premiered, starring Petr Čepek in the dual roles of Faust and Mephisto
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Short Film Prague released a set of 26 Švankmajer's films on cassettes
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1991· 1 entry
Together with Jaromír Kallista, he bought an ex-cinema in the village of Knovíz and founded his own film studio ATHANOR, where he made next films
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1990· 2 entries
Made the political grotesque agitprop film The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia and in 1992 the short work Food, in which he comes to terms with his gastronomic obsessions
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Participated in the collective exhibition of the Surrealist Group The Third Ark in Prague's Mánes
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1989· 1 entry
Rejected the Merited Artist award, in the 1990s the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and in 2011 the award proposed by Václav Havel
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1987· 1 entry
Julian Petley, The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer—Prague's Alchemist of Film, Monthly Film Bulletin 53 (June 1986), pp
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1983· 1 entry
Published his work "Touch and Imagination" in five copies as a samizdat, which was then reprinted in 1994 by Kozoroh Publishing
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1981· 1 entry
Jan and Eva Švankmajer bought a dilapidated castle in Horní Stankov, where they wanted to set up a ceramics workshop
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1972· 1 entry
As a volunteer, he underwent an experiment with intravenous administration of LSD at the Military Hospital in Prague
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1970· 1 entry
Teamed up with Vratislav Effenberger and together with Eva Švankmajerová they became members of the Surrealist Group in Czechoslovakia
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1969· 1 entry
The family decided to return to Czechoslovakia
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1968· 3 entries
Signed the manifesto The Two Thousand Words
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The Švankmajer family moved to the house No
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Received the Max Ernst Prize at the Oberhausen Film Festival for his film Historia naturae
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1965· 1 entry
Made the film Spiel mit steinen (Playing with Stones) practically alone, with the help of Eva Švankmajerová and cinematographer Petr Puluj in Austria
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1964· 1 entry
Made his first short film, The Last Trick, based on the principles of black theatre
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1962· 2 entries
Exhibited his drawings in the corridor of the Semafor and Vlastimil Beneš and Zbyněk Sekal, who visited the exhibition, invited him to join the Máj 57 group
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Jiří Suchý closed it down, but Emil Radok facilitated the engagement of the entire group of the Theatre of Masks in Magician's Lantern
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1960· 1 entry
Founded the group Theatre of Masks, which belonged to the Semafor theatre
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1958· 1 entry
Participated as a puppeteer in Radok's short film Johannes Doctor Faust, inspired by folk puppeteers
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1934· 1 entry
Born 1934-09-04.
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