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Jiří (Georg) Kars |
One of the outstanding artistic personalities of Czech modern art is Jiří (Georg) Kars, who is considered to be one of the most significant Czech-Jewish painters of the 20th century. Jiří Kars was born in Kralupy nad Vltavou in 1880. He studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts from where he graduated in 1905. During the 1920s and 1930s, he exhibited in numerous European cities. His first Prague retrospective exhibition was held in 1937. Before the Second World War, Kars spent most of his time in Paris, and after seizing France by the Nazis, he moved to Lyon for a brief period of time – for he had to leave the latter city soon as well, switching to Switzerland where he, however, tragically died in Geneva in February 1945. Work by Jiří Kars is scattered throughout private and public collections both in the Czech Republic and abroad. After the war, in 1965, small exhibition of Kars’ works was organized in the Vincenc Kramář Gallery in Prague. Nudes executed by Kars in the medium of drawing rank to highly sought-after collector’s items.
Jiří (Georg) Kars
* 1891, Czech Republic
