Jaroslav Panuška Explained

Jaroslav Panuška
Birth Date:	1872 3, df=yes
Birth Place:	Hořovice, Bohemia
Death Place:	Kochánov, Czechoslovakia
Nationality:	Czech
Field:	Painting

Jaroslav Panuška (3 March 1872 – 1 August 1958) was a Czech painter and illustrator.

Biography

Born in 1872 in Hořovice, Jaroslav Panuška was the son of a land surveyor.^[1] He studied art in Prague under Julius Mařák, becoming one of the leading representatives of his school.^[2] During the 1890s he was particularly prominent among Prague artists,^[3] and is mostly known for his disturbing treatment of themes related to death, loneliness and the supernatural.^[4]

From 1923 until his death in 1958, he lived in Kochánov (part of Světlá nad Sázavou). The so-called Panuška's Oak in Kochánov belonged among frequent subjects of his paintings. Panuška is buried in Světlá nad Sázavou.^[5]

Legacy

Panuška's paintings are part of private collections and public museums such as the National Gallery Prague. His works have been included in the annual inter-disciplinary exhibition on 19th-century issues, at the West Bohemian Gallery in Pilsen. In 2014 the theme was On the Edge of the Crowd: Art and the Social Question in the 19th century, and in 2016 Elements Inside Us: Catastrophe and Its Reflection in the 19th Century Culture.^{[6] [7]}

The Czech black metal band Master's Hammer released a song about the artist titled "Panuška", in their 2014 studio album Vagus Vetus.^[8]

Further reading

• BOUČKOVÁ, Jitka: Jaroslav Panuška. East Bohemian Gallery Pardubice, 1978.
• HANEL, Olaf: Jaroslav Panuska (1872-1958). Museo Checo de Bellas Artes de Praga, 1994.
• STEJSKAL, Vladimír: Palette with wine: reading about Jaroslav Panuška. Havlíčkův Brod: Krajské nakladatelství, 1953.
• SCNEIDEROVÁ, Martina, ODEHNALOVÁ, Markéta: Jaroslav Panuška (1872-1958). Havlíčková Brod Fine Arts Gallery, 2012.
• VALEČKA, Jaroslav st: Jaroslav Panuška (1872-1958): A guide to his life and work. Hradec Králové: Milan Hodek - Paper Jam, 2016.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jaroslav Panuška. https://web.archive.org/web/20210125211540/http://www.horackagalerie.cz/jaroslav-panuska. 2021-01-25. 2022-02-17. Horácká Gallery. cs.
2. Web site: Jaroslav Panuška. https://web.archive.org/web/20210616202022/http://www.jaroslavpanuska.cz/english/. 2021-06-16. 2022-02-26.
3. Web site: Jaroslav Panuška - Visiting the Dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20211007134135/https://sbirky.ngprague.cz/en/dielo/CZE:NG.O_15140. 2021-10-07. 2022-02-26. National Gallery Prague.
4. Web site: MacRae. Meghan. 2017-09-01. Death and Abandonment… Jaroslav Panuška. https://web.archive.org/web/20200919061811/https://cvltnation.com/death-abandonment-jaroslav-panuska/. 2020-09-19. 2022-02-26. CVLT Nation.
5. Web site: Panuškův dub u Kochánova. CzechTourism. cs. 2022-12-29.
6. Web site: Šimon . Patrik . 2014-03-03 . (Individualita) na okraji davu . live . https://archive.today/20220310114647/http://www.patriksimon.cz/clanek/individualita-na-okraji-davu/35/ . 2022-03-10 . 2022-03-10 . Patrik Šimon Gallery. cs.
7. Web site: Bendová . Eva . Elements Inside Us. Catastrophe and Its Reflection in the 19th Century Culture. Gallery of West Bohemia. live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210414110325/http://www.zpc-galerie.cz/en/elements-inside-us-catastrophe-and-its-reflection-19th-century-culture-681 . 2021-04-14 . 2022-03-10.
8. Web site: 2017-08-22. Creeping death: The decadent mythological artwork of Jaroslav Panuška. https://web.archive.org/web/20220217150912/https://dangerousminds.net/comments/creeping_death_the_decadent_mythological_artwork_of_jaroslav_panushka. 2022-02-17. 2022-02-26. Dangerous Minds.