Finding aid for Vlastislav Hofman papers and drawings, 1904-1984

Series I. Published articles and transcripts 1911-1944

Physical Description: 0.42 linear feet (1 box)

Scope and Content Note

Series I. The publications in the collection are taken from several leading Czech journals, and are concentrated primarily in the 1910s and 1920s when Hofman took active part in several artistic organizations such as Skupina, Tvrdošíjným, and Umělecká beseda. In the articles, Hofman discusses issues relating to current trends in the visual arts and in the theater. Typescript copies and photocopies are noted in parentheses at the end of the each serial citation and are not included in the item count unless they represent the only extant copy of a given article. A few articles have neither serial title nor date listed.

Arrangement note

The articles are organized alphabetically according to series title, with the dates of publications and number of items listed per folder.

Box 1, Folder 1

Červen, 1918,

Physical Description: 1.0 item

Box 1, Folder 2

Divadlo, 1924-1943,

Physical Description: 8.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Box 1, Folder 3

Drobné Umění, 1920-1921,

Physical Description: 2.0 items

Box 1, Folder 4

Jeviště, 1920-1921,

Physical Description: 19.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Plus annotated photocopies and typescript copy.

Box 1, Folder 5

Kmen, 1917-1918,

Physical Description: 14.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Plus annotated photocopies.

Box 1, Folder 6

Das Kunstblatt, 1920,

Physical Description: 1.0 item

Box 1, Folder 7

Lípa (1918-1919), and Sobota (1920), 1918-1920,

Physical Description: 9.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Plus annotated photocopies.

Box 1, Folder 8

Musaion, 1920-1921,

Physical Description: 2.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Plus one typescript copy.

Box 1, Folder 9

Národní listy, 1929-1939,

Physical Description: 2.0 items

Box 1, Folder 10

Práva Lidu, 1919-1923,

Physical Description: 8.0 items

Box 1, Folder 11

Prěhled, 1911-1913,

Physical Description: 7.0 items

Box 1, Folder 12

Scéna, 1913,

Physical Description: 1.0 item

Box 1, Folder 13

Sobota, 1919,

Physical Description: 3.0 items

Box 1, Folder 14

Stavba, 1922,

Physical Description: 2.0 items

Box 1, Folder 15

Venkov, 1923,

Physical Description: 1.0 item

Box 1, Folder 16

Život, 1928-1944,

Physical Description: 3.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Plus annotated photocopies.

Box 1, Folder 17

Unidentified articles and typescripts, undated,

Physical Description: 10.0 items

Series II. Correspondence, 1916-1963

Physical Description: 0.83 linear feet (2 boxes)

Scope and Content Note

This series contains letters and postcards received by Hofman from prominent Czech artists, writers, dramaturgists and critics. Some of these letters are of a more personal nature, but many provide interesting discussions on contemporary trends in art. The letters from Karel and Josef Čapek are undated, but most likely were sent in 1911 and 1912 when the brothers were living in Paris. One recent monograph on Czech Cubism mentions that both Hofman and Josef Čapek studied for a brief period in 1912 at the Academie Colarossi in Paris, though this information has not been corroborated in any other biographical sketch of Hofman ( Czech Cubism: Architecture, Furniture, and Decorative Arts, 1910-1925. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992). The collection holds a number of letters from one of Hofman's clostest friends, the artist Vacláv Špála. Špála also traveled to Paris in 1911 and, like the Čapeks, contributed to the development of Cubism in Prague upon his return. None of the letters from Špála in the present collection date from 1911, but many were sent in 1913 when Špála was on a study fellowship in Italy. In one of his letters to Hofman, Špála provides an elaborate description of his theories of painting.

Included in the archive are a number of postcards from Hofman's close friend and fellow artist Pavel Janák. The postcards document Janák's travels to Florence, Rome, Munich, Vienna, and other cities in Europe. A few of the cards date as early as 1904, the earliest piece of correspondence in the collection, where Hofman and Janák were still at the Technical University in Prague. Of note are the letters and cards sent by a few of Hofman's friends and acquaintances, for example the dramaturge Josef Kodiček and the artist Bohumil Kubišta, while they were stationed at the front in WWI. Kubišta, one of the better known Czech painters of the Cubist movement, died soon after returning from the front in 1918.

Also present are postcards sent to Hofman in 1910 by the prominent art critic Václav Štech while he was abroad in Italy and Berlin. Both Štech and his wife Marie Štechová were close friends of Hofman. Štech and Hofman were among the founding members of the Skupina organization.

The collection contains sixty-five letters to Hofman from the writer Jan Bartoš dated between 1916 and 1918. During this period Hofman appears to have corresponded frequently and extensively with Bartoš who was then living in Turov. Bartoš played an integral role in Hofman's introduction into the world of theater in 1919, and Hofman later designed sets for productions of several of Bartoš' plays. The letters include copious notes by Bartoš on Fyodor Dostroevsky's novels. In a few letters he lists quotations from the novels regarding a particular character and then adds his own subsequent analysis of the character. Approximately at the same time as the letters were written, Hofman was working on a series of drawings inspired by these same characters of Dostoevsky's works.

Three postcards in the collection were written by Otakar Kubín to Josef Čapek. These are notable because it is believed that most of Čapek's correspondence was lost after his arrest by the Nazis in 1939; he would later die at Bergen-Belsen in 1945. All of the postcards from Kubín were sent from Paris, probably sometime in the early 1910s. In one postcard Kubín reports that he has attended a lecture by Filippo Tommaso Marínetti where he has met the sculptor Umberto Boccioni.

Two letters from the poet Stanislav Neumann discuss articles recently published by Hofman. The letters were written around the time when Hofman was designing book covers for Neumann's collections of poetry (see Series V, Box 13*). Also of note in Series II are two orginal music scores (piano fortes) written by Miroslav Ponc. The scores are written on small cards, signed by Ponc and dated 1961 and 1962.

Miscellaneous business correspondence in the collection provides accounts of the sale of works, honoraria for articles, and membership in Skupina vytvarných umělců. Several letters from Lee Simonson document Hofman's participation in an international exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1934. In his postcards from Die Aktion, Franz Pfempert asks Hofman to send reproductions of his works for the journal.

Arrangement note

Arrangement is alphabetical.

Hofman to Bartoš

Box 2, Folder 3

1916

Physical Description: 9.0 items

Box 2, Folder 4

1917

Physical Description: 33.0 items

Box 2, Folder 5

1918

Physical Description: 6.0 items

Box 2, Folder 6

After 1918

Physical Description: 5.0 items

Box 2, Folder 1, 7

Undated

Physical Description: 12.0 items

Box 2, Folder 8

From Josef and Karel Čapek, undated,

Physical Description: 14.0 items

Box 2, Folder 9

From Josef Chochol, 1925,

Physical Description: 1.0 item

Box 2, Folder 10

From Karel Dostal, 1926-1934,

Physical Description: 3.0 items

Box 2, Folder 11

From Bedřich Feuerstein, 1913-1919,

Physical Description: 8.0 items

Box 2, Folder 12

From Otokar Fischer, 1920-1934,

Physical Description: 2.0 items

Box 2, Folder 13

From Josef Florian, 1917-1918,

Physical Description: 10.0 items

Box 2, Folder 14

From Joseph Gregor, undated,

Physical Description: 3.0 items

Box 2, Folder 15

From Karel Hugo Hilar, 1929

Physical Description: 1.0 item

Box 2, Folder 16

From Pavel Janák, 1904-1918,

Physical Description: 10.0 items

General Physical Description note: (including 1 postcard sent to Janák, author unknown)

Box 2, Folder 17

From Otakar Jeremiaš, 1928,

Physical Description: 1.0 item

Box 2, Folder 18

From Josef Kodiček, 1915-1917,

Physical Description: 3.0 items

Box 2, Folder 19

From Edmond Konrád, 1927-1934 and undated,

Physical Description: 3.0 items

Box 2, Folder 20

From Otakar Kubín to Josef Čapek, undated,

Physical Description: 3.0 items

Box 2, Folder 21

From Bohumil Kubišta, 1914

Physical Description: 2.0 items

Box 2, Folder 22

From Antonin Matéjček, 1910 and undated,

Physical Description: 2.0 items

Box 2, Folder 23

From Stanislav K. Neumann, 1918

Physical Description: 2.0 items

Box 2, Folder 24

From Miroslav Ponc, 1961-1962

Physical Description: 2.0 items

General Physical Description note: (original musical scores)

Box 2, Folder 2

Hofman to Bohuslav Reynek, 1920,

Physical Description: 3.0 items

Box 2, Folder 25

From Miroslav Rutte, 1924-1952,

Physical Description: 6.0 items

Box 2, Folder 26

From František Šalda, 1917,

Physical Description: 6.0 items

Box 2, Folder 27

From Václav Špála, 1913-1916, and undated,

Physical Description: 27.0 items

General note

(including letter from Špála to Čapek)

Box 2, Folder 28

From Václav V. Štech, 1910-1955, and undated,

Physical Description: 10.0 items

Box 2, Folder 29

From Marie Štechova, 1909-1910,

Physical Description: 4.0 items

Box 2, Folder 30

From Ružena Svobodova, 1917,

Physical Description: 9.0 items

Box 3, Folder 1

Various personal letters and postcards, 1924-1957 and undated,

Physical Description: 23.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Including 50th birthday greetings.

Illustrated postcards from friends and acquaintances,

Physical Description: 23.0 items

Box 3, Folder 3

1904-1918

Physical Description: 23.0 items

Box 3, Folder 4

1920s

Physical Description: 21.0 items

Box 3, Folder 5

1930s

Physical Description: 21.0 items

Box 3, Folder 6

1944-1963

Physical Description: 12.0 items

Box 3, Folder 2

Undated

Physical Description: 25.0 items

Box 3, Folder 7

Financial receipts for publications and sale of works, 1911-1931,

Physical Description: 9.0 items

Box 3, Folder 8

Correspondence regarding exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, from Lee Simonson and others, 1933-1934,

Physical Description: 14.0 items

Box 3, Folder 9

from Franz Pfemfert at Die Aktion, 1917,

Physical Description: 4.0 items

Box 3, Folder 10

from Skupina Výtvarných Umělců, 1913,

Physical Description: 6.0 items

Box 3, Folder 11

Miscellaneous business correspondence, 1917-1933,

Physical Description: 4.0 items

Series III. Printed matter and curricula vitae materials, 1936, 1964-1965, 1972, undated

Physical Description: 0.42 linear feet (1 box)

Scope and Content Note

The printed matter contains extensive biographical information on Hofman. A typescript of a lecture by Adolf Benš, given in Hofman's hometown Jičín two years after Hofman's death, provides details of Hofman's family background and career. The curricula vitae, written by Hofman and others, together with the many small exhibition catalogs provide a comprehensive account of Hofman's artistic activities.

The collection holds extensive material dating from Hofman's participation in the 4th Volta Conference, an international theater conference held in Rome in 1936. The conference was sponsored by the Reale Academia D'Italia and the Reunion Volta and was a significant event in the world of theater at the time. The conference was led by the Reunion's President, Luigi Pirandello, and was attended by many leading playwrights, set designers and dramaturges from all over the world. The collection includes a signed photograph of Pirandello and numerous other pieces of memorabilia from the event. Critical reviews of Hofman's work in theater, taken from numerous journals, cover various stages of his career. There are also reviews of exhibitions of Hofman's work, held both in Czechoslovakia and in Italy, and articles commemorating Hofman's 50th, 60th, 70th, and 80th birthdays.

Arrangement note

Arrangement is topical.

Box 4, Folder 1

Curricula vitae and encyclopedia entries, undated,

Physical Description: 18.0 items

Box 4, Folder 2

Exhibition invitations, undated,

Physical Description: 12.0 items

Box 4, Folder 3

Exhibition Catalogs, undated,

Physical Description: 19.0 items

Box 4, Folder 4

Segments of Exhibition Catalogs, Undated,

Physical Description: 6.0 items

Box 4, Folder 5

Fourth "Volta" International Theater Conference in Rome, invitation letters, October 1936,

Physical Description: 3.0 items

Box 4, Folder 6

Fourth "Volta" International Theater Conference in Rome, list of participants, list of papers, memorabilia, October 1936,

Physical Description: 13.0 items

Box 4, Folder 7

Fourth "Volta" International Theater Conference in Rome, photographs, October 1936,

Physical Description: 6.0 items

Box 4, Folder 8

Biographical articles, Undated,

Physical Description: 10.0 items

Box 4, Folder 9

Articles commemorating Hofman's birthday and reviews of retrospective exhibitions, undated,

Physical Description: 24.0 items

Box 4, Folder 10

Critical Reviews - Theatrical Work, undated,

Physical Description: 43.0 items

General note

(includes photographs of articles)

Box 4, Folder 11

Reproductions of drawings and paintings in periodicals, undated,

Physical Description: 24.0 items

Box 4, Folder 12

Articles on Hofman and others, uUndated,

Physical Description: 12.0 items

Box 4, Folder 13

Critical reviews - typescript copies, Undated,

Physical Description: 11.0 items

Box 4, Folder 14

Critical reviews of exhibitions in Italy, 1964, 1965, and 1972

Physical Description: 24.0 items

Box 4, Folder 15

Obituaries, undated

Physical Description: 14.0 items

Series IV. Photographs 1907-1954

Physical Description: 1.46 linear feet (7 boxes)

Scope and Content Note

The photographs document much of Hofman's career in the theater. There is also an entire volume of costume designs which Hofman created from the film "Anna proletářka" in 1951. The photographs of actual sets and live performances have been arranged seperately in section 4 of box 7 and are also arranged chronologically and labeled, where possible. A small group of large photographs of set designs and architectural projects are housed seperately in box 8.

A small collection of photographs of works in the decorative arts are arranged according to the type of project. The collection contains photographs of both sketches and realized projects. These works are representative of Hofman's early career as part of the Cubo-Expressionist movement in Prague. A number of the works in Series V. are also representative of Hofman's Cubo-Expressionism. The oversized and double-oversized works in Series V. comprise original designs in the decorative arts and architecture. Unless noted, the works are drawings in pencil or ink. The works are also arranged according to type of project. Box 13* contains several designs in the decorative arts for ceramic, wood, and metal objects. Box 14* houses works stemming from Hofman's early career in architecture. Most of the designs, primarily for churches and public projects, date from the early 1910s. Several were created as entries for design competitions, but most of his architectural plans were never realized. Of the architectural drawings in the collection only one is believed to have been constructed (box 14*, folder 4). Some architectural drawings are housed in the Flatfile Folders together with exhibition posters and diplomas.

The biographical photographs of Hofman in Series IV date from various periods in his life and are generally arranged chronologically (several are undated). There are a few early photographs circa 1910 which depict Hofman among his avant-garde friends. Several photographs document Hofman's wife Zdenka, their two daughters, and two grandchildren. There are a number of photographs of Hofman taken in the last years of his life and shortly before his death in 1964.

Arrangement note

Arrangement is topical and chronological.

Box 5

Theater, costume designs, 1919-1954,

Scope and Content Note

Costume Designs for many of the productions listed for Binder 3. The costume designs correspond to many of the set designs, and several are labeled by Hofman either within the photograph or on the reverse side of the photograph.

Box 6

Film, costume designs, 1951,

Scope and Content Note

"Anna proletářka," based on the novel Anna proletářka: román o roka 1920 (1946) by Ivan Olbracht, Czechoslovakian State Film of Barrandov 1953, directed by Karel Steklý, costum designs from 1951.

Theater, set designs, 1919-1939,

Physical Description: 0.43 linear feet

General Physical Description note: (1 Binder)

Arrangement note

The photographs of set designs in Box 6 are described in the finding aid with: title of production, author or composer, theater and date of performance, and director. Arranged chronologically.

Box 7

Husité, Antonín Dvořák, Vinohradské divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1919

Box 7

Krkavci, Jan Bartoš, Vinohradské divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1920

Box 7

Pěst, Jaroslav Hilbert, Vinohradské divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1920

Box 7

Slečna Julie, Johan August Strindberg, Vinohradské divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1920

Box 7

Herakles, Otokar Fischer, Vinohradské divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1920

Box 7

Bouře, William Shakespeare, Vinohradské divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1920

Box 7

Svítaní, Emilie Verhaeren, Vinohradské divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1920

Box 7

Koriolan, William Shakespeare, Národní divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1921

Box 7

Zvony, Fráňa Šrámek, Národní divadlo, Josef Hurt, 1921

Box 7

Fidelio, Ludwig van Beethoven, Národní divadlo, Ferdinand Pujman, 1921

Box 7

Výměna, Paul Claudel, Vinohradské divadlo, Karel Dostal, 1921

Box 7

Převrat, Stanislav Lom, Národní divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1922

Box 7

Don Carlos, Friedrich Schiller, Národní divadlo, Vojta Novák, 1922

Box 7

Královana Kristýna, Johan August Strindberg, Národní divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1922

Box 7

Námluvy Polopovy, Zdeněk Fibich and Jaroslav Vrchlický, Národní divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1923

Box 7

Kolumbus, Jaroslav Hilbert, Národní divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1924

Box 7

Dezerter, Jiří Mahen, Vinohradské divadlo, Bohuš Stejskal, 1924

Box 7

Bílá Hora, Antonín Dvořák, Národní divadlo, Karel Dostal, 1924

Box 7

Tristan a Isolde, Richard Wagner, Národní divadlo, Ferdinand Pujman, 1924

Box 7

Otroci, Otokar Fischer, Národní divadlo, Vojta Novák, 1925

Box 7

Smír Tantalův, Zdeněk Fibich and Jaroslav Vrchlický, Národní divadlo, Ferdinand Pujman, 1925

Box 7

Hedy, Zdeněk Fibich, Národní divadlo, Ferdinand Pujman, 1925

Box 7

Žižka, Stanislav Lom, Národní divadlo, Karel Dostal, 1925

Box 7

Hra a lásce a smrti, Romain Rolland, Národní divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1925

Box 7

Císař Jones, Eugene O'Neill, Stavovské divadlo, Karel Dostal, 1925

Box 7

Antigona, Sophocles, Národní divadlo, Karel Dostal, 1925

Box 7

Živost paní Warrenové, George Barnard Shaw, Stavovské divadlo, M. Svoboda, 1926

Box 7

Oči ze všech nejkrásnější, Jean Sarment, Stavovské divadlo, V. Vydra, 1926

Box 7

Faidra, Racine, 1926

Box 7

Tažení proti smrti, František Xaver, Karel Dostal, 1926

Box 7

Hamlet, William Shakespeare, Národní divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1926

Box 7

Kokrháč, Edmond Rostand, Národní divadlo, Vojta Novák, 1927

Box 7

Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Národní divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1928

Box 7

Úték, John Galsworthy, Stavovské divadlo, Vojta Novák, 1927

Box 7

Rodinná Zaležitost, Edmond Konrád, Karel Dostal, 1927

Box 7

Zmoudření Dona Quijota, Viktor Dyk, Městké divadlo, Jan Bor, 1927

Box 7

Kamarad Čtvrtek, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Národní divadlo, Karel Dostal, 1927

Box 7

Adam Stvořitel, Bratři Čapkové, Národní divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1927

Box 7

Falkenštejn, Jaroslav Hilbert, Národní divadlo, Karel Dostal, 1927

Box 7

Kalich,Antonín Dvořák, Vinohradské divadlo, Jan Bor, 1928

Box 7

Zločin a trest, podle romanu Fyodor Dostoyevsky, úprava Jan Bora, Vinohradské divadlo, Jan Bor, 1928

Box 7

Plukovník Švec, Rudolf Medek, Národní divadlo, Karel Dostal, 1928

Box 7

Bratři Karamazovi, O. Jeremiaáš podle romanu Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Národní divadlo, Ferdinand Pujman, 1928

Box 7

Bar Kochba, Jaroslav Vrchlický, Národní divadlo, Vojta Novák, 1928

Box 7

Král Lear, William Shakespeare, Národní divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1929

Box 7

R.U.R., Karel Čapek, Vinohradské divadlo, Josef Kodiček, 1929

Box 7

Svatý Václav, Stanislav Lom, Národní divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1929

Box 7

Vilém Tell, Friedrich Schiller, Národní divadlo, Vojta Novák, 1930

Box 7

Signorina Gioventů, Vítězslav Novák, Národní divadlo, Ferdinand Pujman, 1930

Box 7

Běsové, z romanu Fyodor Dostoyevsky, zdramatisoval František Götz, Národní divadlo, Karel Dostal, 1930

Box 7

Miliony Marca Pola, Eugene O'Neill, Vinohradské divadlo, Jan Bor, 1930

Box 7

Bratři Karamazovi, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Vinohradské divadlo, Jan Bor, 1931

Box 7

Nový Amphitryon, Jean Giraudoux, Národní divadlo, Vojta Novák, 1931

Box 7

Alžbéta Anglická, Jean Giraudoux, Národní divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1931

Box 7

Král Oidip, Sophocles, Národní divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1931

Box 7

Andělé mezi námi, František Langer, Vinohradské divadlo, Jan Bor, 1931

Box 7

Ženitba, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogol', Národní divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1932

Box 7

Jan Hus, Alois Jirásek, Národní divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1932

Box 7

Markýza z O, F. Bruckner, Vinohradské divadlo, Jan Bor, 1933

Box 7

Maryša, Bratří Mrštíkové, Národní divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1933

Box 7

Valdštejn, Friedrich Schiller, Národní divadlo, Karel Dostal, 1933

Box 7

Smutek sluší Elektře, Eugene O'Neill, Národní divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1934

Box 7

Jiří z Podébrad, Rudolf Medek, Národní divadlo, Jiří Frejka, 1934

Box 7

Richard III, William Shakespeare, Národní divadlo, Jan Bor, 1934

Box 7

Modlitba za živé, Jacques Deval, Vinohradské divadlo, Jan Bor, 1934

Box 7

Námořník Sinibád, Stanislav Lom, Národní divadlo, Jiří Frejka, 1934

Box 7

Romeo a Julie, William Shakespeare, Jan Bor, 1934

Scope and Content Note

Never performed.

Box 7

Krev nevolá o pomstu, Emil Vachek, Vinohradské divadlo, Jan Bor, 1935

Box 7

Rozrušená země, Michail Šolochov, Vinohradské divadlo, Jan Bor, 1935

Box 7

Pramen věčného mládí, Eugene O'Neill, Vinohradské divadlo, Jan Bor, 1935

Box 7

Lorenzaccio, Alred De Musset, Karel Doset, 1935

Scope and Content Note

Never performed.

Box 7

Mefistofeles, Arrigo Boito, Národní divadlo, Turnau, 1936

Box 7

Gero, Alois Jirásek, Národní divadlo, Jiří Frejka, 1936

Box 7

Judita, Christian Friedrich Hebel, Vinohradské divadlo, Jan Bor, 1936

Box 7

Bílá nemoc, Karel Čapek, Stavovské divadlo, Karel Dostal, 1937

Box 7

Peer Gynt, Henrik Ibsen, Národní divadlo, Bohuš Stejskal, 1937

Box 7

Napoleon I, F. Bruckner, Stavovské divadlo, Karel Dostal, 1937

Box 7

Kristus, František Zavřel, Stavovské divadlo, A. Podkhorský, 1937

Box 7

Kde ze žebrá, E. Konrad, Stavovské divadlo, Karel Dostal, 1937

Box 7

Vassa Železnovová, Maksim Gorky, Stavovské divadlo, Karel Dostal, 1937

Box 7

Zkáza Eskadry, Aleksandr Kornejčuk, Vinohradské divadlo, Bohuš Stejskal, 1937

Box 7

Panna Orleánská, Friedrich Schiller, Vinohradské divadlo, František Salzer, 1937

Box 7

Mackbeth, William Shakespeare, Národní divadlo, Jan Bor, 1939

Box 7

Falstaff, William Shakespeare, A. Podkhorský, 1939

Scope and Content Note

Banned by the Protectorate.

Theater, set designs, 1940-1954

Binder 8, Section 1

Šesté poschodí, Gehri, Prozatímní divadlo, Jan Bor, 1941

Binder 8, Section 1

Kateřina Poděbraská, F. Kožik, A. Podkhorský, 1940

Scope and Content Note

Never performed.

Binder 8, Section 1

Zločin a trest, dle románu Fyodor Dostojevského, úprava Jan Bora, Prozatímní divadlo, Jan Bor, 1941

Binder 8, Section 1

Gabriel Borkman, Henrik Ibsen, Vinohradské divadlo, Gabriel Hart, 1941

Binder 8, Section 1

Nápadníci trůnu, Henrik Ibsen, Národní divadlo, Jan Bor, 1941

Binder 8, Section 1

Na Valdštejnské šachté, Ladislav Stroupežnický, Prozatímní divadlo, A. Podhorský, 1942

Binder 8, Section 1

Zlé svědomí, Ludwig Auzengruber, Prozatímní divadlo, A. Podhorský, 1941

Binder 8, Section 1

Caesar, František Zavřel, Národní divadlo, Jiří Frejka, 1942

Binder 8, Section 1

Lod' do Smyrny, Goldoni-Götz, Prozatímní divadlo, A. Podhorský, 1943

Binder 8, Section 1

Pavouk, Hermann Bahr, Uranie, A. Podhorský, 1943

Binder 8, Section 1

Lod', Miloš Kratochvíl, Divadlo na Pořící, Karel Jernek, 1944

Binder 8, Section 1

Husité, Antonín Dvořák, Lidové divadlo v Pořící, František Salzer, 1944

Binder 8, Section 1

Dalibor, Bedřich Smetana, Národní divadlo, Ferdinand Pujman, 1945

Binder 8, Section 1

Quayana, Olga Scheinpflugová, Tylovo divadlo (dříve Stavovské), Vojta Novák, 1945

Binder 8, Section 1

Matka, Karel Čapek, Stavovské divadlo, Karel Dostal, 1945

Binder 8, Section 1

Jegor Bulyčev, Maksim Gorky, Stavovské divadlo, A. Podhorský, 1946

Binder 8, Section 1

Skála bleskú, R. Ardrey, Stavovské divadlo, A. Podhorský, 1946

Binder 8, Section 1

Car Ivan Hrozný, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Stavovské divadlo, A. Podhorský, 1947

Binder 8, Section 1

Les, Nikolay Ostrovsky, Národní divadlo, A. Podhorský, 1948

Binder 8, Section 1

Poslední Hejtman, M. Krejčí-Klenová, Národní divadlo, Ferdinand Pujman, 1948

Binder 8, Section 1

Lod' dobře naděje, Miloslav Stehlík, Tylovo divadlo (dříve Stavovské), František Salzer, 1948

Binder 8, Section 1

Vstanou noví bojovníci, Antonín Zápotocký, Národní divadlo, J. Průcha, 1949

Binder 8, Section 1

Strakonický Dudák, 1953

Binder 8, Section 1

Jan Hus, J. K. Tyla, J. Stanék, 1955

Binder 8, Section 1

Boleslav I, Boleslav Vomačka, Milan Jariš, Ferdinand Pujman, 1957

Binder 8, Section 1

Zkáka eskadry, Aleksandr Kornejčuk, národní divadlo v Karlových Varech, Bohuš Stejskal,

Box 8

Theater, set designs - unidentified, undated

Box 8

Proof sheets from negatives - set designs and costume designs,

Photographs of realized sets and performances, 1919-1954 and undated

Box 8

Husité, Antonín Dvořák, Vinohradské divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1919

Box 8

Antigona, Sofokle, Národní divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1925

Box 8

Poštovní úřad, Rabindranath Tagore, Stavovské divadlo, Vojta Novák, 1924

Box 8

Hamlet, William Shakespeare, Národní divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1926

Box 8

Kalich, Antonín Dvořák, Vinohradské divadlo, Jan Bor, 1928

Box 8

Ataman Rinov, František Kubka, Národní divadlo, Karel Dostel, 1928

Box 8

Král Lear, William Shakespeare, Národní divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1929

Box 8

Vršovci, R. Kurpička, Vinohradské divadlo, Jan Bor, 1929

Box 8

Besové, Fyodor Dostroevsky, Národní divadlo, Karel Dostal, 1929

Box 8

Král Oidip, Sofokles, Národní divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1934

Box 8

Anděle mezi námi, František Langer, Vinohradské divadlo, Jan Bor, 1931

Box 8

Ptáci, Aristofanes, Národní divadlo, Jiří Frejka, 1934

Box 8

Smutek sluší Elektře, Eugene O'Neill, Národní divadlo, Karel Hugo Hilar, 1934

Box 8

Svatá Ludmila, Antonín Dvořák, Národní divadlo, Ferdinand Pujman, 1934

Box 8

Idiot, z romámu Fyodor Dostroevského, Městké divadlo, Jan Bor, 1934

Box 8

Kamarád čtvrtek, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Národní divadlo, Karek Dostal, 1927

Box 8

Pramen Večnêho mládí, Eugene O'Neill, Vinohradské divadlo, Jan Bor, 1935

Box 8

Gero, Alois Jirásek, Národní divadlo, Jiří Frejka, 1936

Box 8

Zkáza eskadry, Aleksandr Kornejčuk, Vinohradské divadlo, Bohuš Stejskal, 1937

Box 8

Lecture by Professor Švrty(?) on St. Václav, 1939

Box 8

R.U.R., Karel Čapek, Stavovské divadlo, Karel Dostal, 1939

Box 8

Púlnoční slunce, Vilém Werner, Vinohradské divadlo, Gabriel Hart, 1941

Box 8

Zločin a trest, Fyodor Dostroevsky, Jan Bor, Národní divadlo, Jan Bor, 1941

Box 8

Dalibor, Bedřich Smetana, Národní divadlo, Ferdinand Pujman, 1942

Box 8

Quayana, Olga Scheinpflugová, Stavovské divadlo, Vojta Novák, 1945

Box 8

Husité, Antonín Dvořák, Lidové divadlo v Karlíné, František Salzer, 1945

Box 8

Cesta v poušti, John Boynton Priestley, Vinohradské divadlo, Gilbert Hart, 1945

Box 8

Jegor Bulyčev, Maksim Gorky, Stavovské divadlo, A. Podhorský, 1946

Box 8

Lod' dobře naděje, Miloslav Stehlík, Tylovo divadlo (dříve Stavovské), František Salzer, 1948

Box 8

Vojna a mír, Leo Tolstoj, Sergei Prokofiev, Národní divadlo, Ferdinand Pujman, 1948

Box 8

Ifigenia na Tauridé, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Národní divadlo, Vojta Novák, 1954

Box 8

Unidentified

Drawings and paintings, and designs and realized projects in the decorative arts 1907-1923 and undated

Box 9

Drawings, 1919,

Physical Description: 2.0 items

Box 9

Paintings, 1911,

Physical Description: 4.0 items

Box 9

Glass and Ceramics (realized projects), 1910-1921,

Physical Description: 25.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Includes clippings.

Box 9

Lampposts and lamps (sketch and realized projects), 1913-1923,

Physical Description: 4.0 items

Box 9

Furniture (sketches and realized projects, 1910-1922,

Physical Description: 31.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Includes clippings.

Box 10

Biographical, undated

Box 11

Set and costume designs, Bulk, 1924-1930 1913, 1924-1930

Photographs, 1913-1930

Box 12

Set designs and productions, 1924-1930

Box 12

Town model, "Pod Emavy," 1913

Box 12

Thoroughfare, 1927

Series V. Oversized works, exhibition posters and diplomas 1914-1984

Physical Description: 5.68 linear feet

Scope and Content Note

Material in Series V. includes decorative arts designs, architectural drawings, exhibition posters, awards, diplomas, and other large-format items.

Arrangement note

Arrangement is topical.

Decorative arts designs

Box 13*, Folder 1

Book covers, undated

Physical Description: 4.0 items,

Box 13*, Folder 2

Vase and bowl service set, watercolor, 1920,

Physical Description: 2.0 items

Box 13*, Folder 3

Tile stove and wardrobe, 1918 and 1923,

Physical Description: 2.0 items

Box 13*, Folder 4

Picture frames for the Waldes Museum, 1917,

Physical Description: 1.0 item

Scope and Content Note

Ink with watercolor.

Box 13*, Folder 5

Rings, colored pencil, 1919,

Physical Description: 3.0 items

Architectural drawings

Box 14*, Folder 1

Facades, 1910-1914,

Physical Description: 5.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Including 2 linoleum cuts.

Box 14*, Folder 2

Garden, arbor and pavilion, 1909-1947,

Physical Description: 3.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Including 1 ink and crayon drawing and 1 crayon drawing.

Box 14*, Folder 3

Memorials and crypts, 1910-1921 and undated

Physical Description: 7.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Including 2 drawings and crayon.

Box 14*, Folder 4

Cemetery, main entrance, 1911

Physical Description: 1.0 item

Scope and Content Note

Extensive notes on reverse, signed.

Box 14*, Folder 5

Church in Prague, 1915

Physical Description: 3.0 items

Box 14*, Folder 6

Series of drawings and plans for a church, 1915

Physical Description: 8.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Ink and crayon.

Box 14*, Folder 7

Crematoriums in Nymburk, Pisek and Morava Ostrova, 1919

Physical Description: 5.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Includes 2 ink drawings with watercolor.

Box 14*, Folder 8

Entry for a design competition for the Rieger Memorial in Kozakov, 1914

Physical Description: 4.0 items

Scope and Content Note

Pencil with crayon.

Box 14*, Folder 9

Rieger Memorial, 1914

Physical Description: 1.0 item

Scope and Content Note

Hand-colored block print.

Box 14*, Folder 10

Tunnels and pavilions, 1912-1914

Physical Description: 4.0 items

Box 14*, Folder 11

Memorial to Bedřich Smetana, 1924 and undated,

Physical Description: 2.0 items

Box 14*, Folder 12

National Theater in Brno, 1911

Physical Description: 1.0 item

Box 14*, Folder 13

Mucha Slovansk building, 1947

Physical Description: 1.0 item

Box 14*, Folder 14

Unidentified fragments of drawings, undated

Physical Description: 3.0 items

Box 14*, Folder 15

Entry for a design competition for a church in Vrsovice, Undated,

Physical Description: 1.0 item

Tube 1

Layout plans: park, tunnel, and transportation scheme, 1945 and undated,

Physical Description: 3.0 items

Architectural drawings, exhibition posters, awards and diplomas

Flatfile 1**

Fragment of a drawing for the Žižka Monument Competition, 1915,

Physical Description: 1.0 item

Flatfile 1**

Churches, monuments and the Mánes pavillion, 1913-1915,

Physical Description: 4.0 items

Flatfile 1**

Smetana monument, 1929-1933,

Physical Description: 5.0 items

Flatfile 1**

An overpass and a layout design for Žižka Monument and grounds, undated,

Physical Description: 2.0 items

Flatfile 1**

Exhibition Posters, 1951-1984 and undated,

Physical Description: 7.0 items

Flatfile 1**, Folder

Awards and diplomas, 1925-1964,

Physical Description: 8.0 items

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