{"id":17659,"date":"2016-01-20T01:05:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T01:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17659"},"modified":"2016-01-20T01:05:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T01:05:09","slug":"the-art-of-frantisek-kobliha-1877-1962","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2016\/01\/20\/the-art-of-frantisek-kobliha-1877-1962\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Frantisek Kobliha, 1877\u20131962"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kobliha05.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kobliha05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Untitled.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Another unfamiliar name, Frantisek Kobliha was a Czech Symbolist whose output includes a great deal of monochrome work in a variety of media: woodcuts, lithographs and the like. This may explain why he doesn&#8217;t make the larger Symbolist studies despite the quality of his work. Among his series of prints there&#8217;s that Symbolist perennial, the Temptation of St Anthony.<\/p>\n<p>These examples may be found at larger size <a href=\"http:\/\/ghmp.cz\/online-sbirky\/detail\/10161\/?&amp;page=1#next\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (slow to load but many pages) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galerieart.cz\/symbolismus_frantisek_kobliha.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/5fathom.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thom<\/a> for the tip!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kobliha06.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kobliha06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Untitled.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kobliha09.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kobliha09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>May (1911).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kobliha02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kobliha02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Night on the River (1912).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kobliha04.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kobliha04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Untitled, from the series Tales and Legends (1916).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kobliha01.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kobliha01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Moonlit night (1925).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kobliha03.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kobliha03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Falling Star (1925).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kobliha10.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kobliha10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Temptation of St Anthony (1925).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kobliha07.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kobliha07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Fantasy of Moonlit Nights (Black Swan) (1944).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kobliha08.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kobliha08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Fantasy of Moonlit Nights (Burning Houses) (1944).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Untitled. Another unfamiliar name, Frantisek Kobliha was a Czech Symbolist whose output includes a great deal of monochrome work in a variety of media: woodcuts, lithographs and the like. This may explain why he doesn&#8217;t make the larger Symbolist studies despite the quality of his work. Among his series of prints there&#8217;s that Symbolist perennial, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2016\/01\/20\/the-art-of-frantisek-kobliha-1877-1962\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of Frantisek Kobliha, 1877\u20131962&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,30,45],"tags":[7945],"class_list":["post-17659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-symbolists","tag-frantisek-kobliha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4AP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}