Lauda Jan 1898–1959
Allegory of Autumn
Bohemia, design by J. Lauda, production by Cooperative Works for the Beautiful Room,
1930s, ceramics, height 40 cm, professionally restored
Lit.: Katalog Družstevní práce [Catalogue of Cooperative Labour] 1936. Panorama, vol. 21, pictorial
Annex to the offer leaflet. Jan Lauda, sculptor, representative of the so-called social art. He studied by
Josef Drahoňovský at UMPRUM and Jan Stursa at AVU
Prague, where he later worked as a professor. From 1921 he shared a studio with
Gutfreund and until 1925 he worked with J. Stursa. In the 1930s
and the 1940s he worked for Družstevní práce. Sculpture Allegory
Autumn comes from the cycle The Four Seasons.
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