Věra Janoušková (25 June 1922 in Úbislavice,ěraJanoušková Czechoslovakia – 10 August 2010 Prague) was a Czech sculptor, painter and graphic artist.

She studied sculpture during the 1940s at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague and the Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia. In the early 1960s, she was one of the founding members of the avant-garde art group UB 12.

Věra Janoušková

Enamel objects are the most typical things, which Věra Janoušková brought in art. At first she connected it by patinated plaster and then by welding of parts of old objects – pots, wash basins, stoves, plates, pipes, buckets, scoops, strainers or cans. She combines different methods – cuts and scissors sheet metal, welds and "stitches", works them by flame, uses opportunities of color contrasts. She reaches delicate structured expression in compositions of simple shapes, crosses, totems and signs or pathetic figures. Thrown away objects gain a new function.

Věra Janoušková

Bibliography

External links

Věra Janoušková, artist Česká televize, 2005

Artwork: Figure – Věra Janoušková Museum Kampa – Google Art Project

Výtvarnické konfese: Věra Janoušková Česká televize, 2008

Artist Věra Janoušková ARTLIST- database of contemporary Czech art

Czech sculptors

Czech women sculptors

Czech women painters

Czech printmakers

20th-century Czech sculptors

20th-century Czech painters

20th-century Czech artists

20th-century printmakers

Czech graphic designers

1922 births

2010 deaths

Czech women artists

Czech women graphic designers

Women printmakers

People from Jičín District

Czechoslovak sculptors

20th-century American women sculptors

20th-century American sculptors

Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague alumni

Věra Janoušková