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Revision as of 09:21, 14 August 2019
The Devětsil was an association of Czech avant-garde artists, founded in December 1920 in Prague. From 1923 on there was also an active group in Brno.
Founded as U. S. Devětsil (Umělecký Svaz Devětsil) [Devětsil Artistic Federation], its name was changed several times. From 1925, it was called the Svaz moderní kultury Devětsil [the Devětsil Union of Modern Culture].
The group was active in organizing the Czech art scene of the period. Members published several magazines - ReD (Revue Devětsilu), Disk and Pásmo, as well as almanacs (most importantly Devětsil and Život, 1922) and organized several exhibitions.
The members included artists, photographers, architects, theoreticans, poets, writers, actors, musicians and film directors, such as Karel Teige, Jaroslav Seifert, Vladislav Vančura, Adolf Hoffmeister, Jindřich Štýrský, Toyen, Jaroslav Rösler, Bedřich Václavek, Konstantin Biebl, Vítězslav Nezval, Jiří Voskovec, Jan Werich, Jindřich Honzl, E.F. Burian, and many others.
In 1927 the Brno section discontinued its activities, followed by the Prague section in 1930.
Publications
(in Czech unless noted otherwise)
Magazines
 Disk 1 (1923). 30 x 21 cm. PDF (30 MB). |
 ReD 2:8 (Apr 1929): "Foto Film Typo". PDF. |
- Disk: internacionální revue, 2 issues, eds. Jaromír Krejcar, Jaroslav Seifert and Karel Teige, Prague, 1923-25.
- Pásmo: revue internationale moderne, 24 numbers, ed. Artuš Černík, Brno, 1924-26.
- ReD: měsíčník pro moderní kulturu, 30 numbers, ed. Karel Teige, Prague, 1927-31.
Almanacs
 Jaromír Krejcar (ed.), Život: výtvarný sborník, 2, 1922, PDF (225 MB). |
 Halas, Průša, Rossmann, Václavek (eds.), Fronta: mezinárodní sborník soudobé aktivity, 1927, PDF (344 MB). |
- Jaroslav Seifert, Karel Teige (eds.), Devětsil: Revoluční sborník, Prague: Večernice, 1922, 208 pp, JPG.
- Jaromír Krejcar (ed.), Život: výtvarný sborník, 2, Prague, 1922.
- Halas, Průša, Rossmann, Václavek (eds.), Fronta: mezinárodní sborník soudobé aktivity, Brno, 1927, 203 pp.
Anthologies
- Stěpán Vlašín (ed.), Avantgarda známá a neznámá, 3: Vrchol a krize poetismu 1925-1928, Prague: Svoboda, 1972.
Literature
- Jaroslav Bílek, Oleg Sus, "O vzniku brněnského Devětsilu (z dějin avantgardní umělecké organizace)", Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity 15:D13, 1966, pp 117-124. (Czech)
- Peter Drews, Devetsil und Poetismus: künstlerische Theorie und Praxis der tschechischen literarischen Avantgarde am Beispiel Vitezslav Nezvals, Jaroslav Seiferts und Jiri Wolkers, Munich: Sagner, 1975, 333 pp. (German)
- Iva Gajdošíková, "Avantgarda jako kritika, akce a politika : politická orientace brněnské avantgardy - její projevy a důsledky", in Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity 2:O2, 2005, pp 95-126. (Czech)
- Jeanette Fabianová, "'Ruku v ruce s básnictvím.' Roman Jakobson a Umělecký svaz Devětsil", trans. Petr Mareš, Slovo a smysl / Word & Sense 2:4 (2005), pp 74-95. (Czech)
- Aurèle Letricot, "Devetsil et ses revues. l'avant-garde du Toit de l'Europe", La revue des revues 40 (2007). (French)
- Thomas G. Winner, The Czech Avant-Garde Literary Movement Between the Two World Wars, c2010, 206 pp. (English)
- Thomas Ort, "Art ≠ Life: The Čapek Generation and Devětsil in Interwar Czechoslovakia", in Ort, Art and Life in Modernist Prague: Karel Čapek and his Generation, 1911-1938, Palgrave, 2013, pp 119-151. (English)
- in Ort, Umění a život v modernistické Praze. Karel Čapek a jeho generace, 1911-1938, trans. Tomáš Míka, Prague: Argo, 2015. (Czech)
- Petr Ingerle, Lucie Česálková (eds.), Brněnský Devětsil: multimediální přesahy umělecké avantgardy, Brno: Moravian Gallery in Brno, 2014. Exhibition catalogue. [1] (Czech)
- Theses on Devětsil from Masaryk University (Czech)
See also
Links
- Devětsil in Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
- Brno Devětsil: Multimedia Overlaps of the Artistic Avant-Garde, exhibition at Moravian Gallery in Brno, curated by Petr Ingerle, Nov 2014-Apr 2015. [2]
- http://artslexikon.cz/index.php/Devětsil
- Devětsil at Wikipedia
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