Věra Janoušková

Portrait of Věra Janoušková by Karel Kuklík, 1960s

Věra Janoušková (25 June 1922 in Úbislavice, Czechoslovakia – 10 August 2010 Prague) was a Czech sculptor, painter and graphic artist.

She studied sculpture during the 1940s at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague and the Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia. In the early 1960s, she was one of the founding members of the avant-garde art group UB 12.

Enamel objects are the most typical things, which Věra Janoušková brought in art. At first she connected it by patinated plaster and then by welding of parts of old objects – pots, wash basins, stoves, plates, pipes, buckets, scoops, strainers or cans. She combines different methods – cuts and scissors sheet metal, welds and "stitches", works them by flame, uses opportunities of color contrasts. She reaches delicate structured expression in compositions of simple shapes, crosses, totems and signs or pathetic figures. Thrown away objects gain a new function.

Bibliography

• Chalupecký, Jindřich (1994), Nové umění v Čechách, Jinočany: H&H, ISBN 80-85787-81-4
• Stádníková, Jolana (2000), Sculptures in Prague 1980 - 2000 / Contemporary sculpture in Prague public space, Praha: EUROtisk, ISBN 80-902586-5-4
• Zemina, Jaromír (2001), Věra Janoušková: Já to dělám takhle, Praha: Torst, ISBN 80-7215-162-2
• Klimešová, Marie (2010), Roky ve dnech, Galerie hlavního města Prahy, ISBN 978-80-87164-35-8
• Machalický, Jiří (2005), Česká koláž, Praha: Gallery, ISBN 80-86010-97-X
• Klimešová, Marie; Richard Drury; Tomáš Kotalík; Milena Slavická; Ivan Martin Jirous (2005), Czech studios- 71 contemporary artists, Prague: Art CZ, ISBN 978-80-239-5528-6

External links

• Věra Janoušková, artist Česká televize, 2005 (in Czech)
• Artwork: Figure – Věra Janoušková Museum Kampa – Google Art Project
• Výtvarnické konfese: Věra Janoušková Česká televize, 2008 (in Czech)
• Artist Věra Janoušková ARTLIST- database of contemporary Czech art