In memory of our father: Ph Dr. Lubos Agustin Hlavacek, CSc.

Born in Prague, Czech Republic, 1929 - 2007 Dr. Lubos Augustin Hlavacek, historian of art and aesthetics, the author of more than forty books on art, published a long line of articles, treatises and critics. Art and the world, dialog of shape, monograph: Josef Manes, Mikolas Ales, Maurice Utrillo, Bohumil Kubista, Jan Slavicek, Pablo Picasso, Albrecht Durer drawing of Ota Janecek and Ludmila Jirincova. Magazine study: Michelangelo drawings, cosmography Wenceslas Hollar, Apollinaire's art thinking, Marc Chagall, Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, Masaryk aesthetics, Karel Capek as a draftsman, draftsman as Goethe and art talent of Gunter Grasse. Doctor Augustin Hlavacek is the bearer of silver medal of Frantisek Palacky of Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. He was close friend of Kamila Lhoták, Švengsbír and Jiri Trnka and others artists. Dr. Lubos Hlavacek was in the end of fifties and early sixties the first art historian, who is dealt with the issue of art and film. In his book Immortal movie of 1961 reflect on the developmental context of cinema and the visual arts, and his inspiration for the possibilities of this branch. An art criticism directed his attention not only to issues of the Film design, scenography and costumes, but also comics and puppet movies. He was interested l also on the personality of Jiri Trnka, who’s considered from the outset as a distinguished representative of the Czech art and culture. He was for him a pioneer of animated films and an excellent illustrator, painter, sculptor and personal friend.

Some of the published books by Dr. Lubos Hlavacek-Augustin:

Praha nuestra edad (los cuatro libros sobre Praga) (1978)
Formas del habla - Artes perciben las Artes (1984)

Josef Manes crines y la familia artísticas (1988)
Arte y Mundial (1969)
Josef Lada (1986)
Jan Slavíček (1980)
Gráficos contemporáneas (II) (1978)
Albrecht Dürer - Dibujos (1982)

Pablo Picasso (1981)

Drama de la vida Bohumila Kubišty (1968)

Gráficos actuales de Checoslovaquia (1964)

Ota Janeček (1989)

Película inmortal (1961)

Ludmila Jiřincová (1991)

Arte contemporáneo Checa y Eslovaca (1982)

By Dr. Lubos Hlavacek: 

The monograph, which marks the anniversary of Picasso's birth, reflects the lifetime career of his career and stops in the fields of his artistic activity...

 

By Dr. Lubos hlavacek: 

Joseph Manes (12 May 1820 Prague - 9 December 1871 Prague) was a Czech painter, illustrator, graphic artist and one of the most prominent representatives of Czech Romanticism. His father was the famous painter Antonín Mánes, professor of landscape painting at the Prague Painting Academy. His uncle Václav Mánes twice occupied the place of the temporary...

 

By Dr. Lubos Hlavacek:

The most recent art history of the capital: from the Prague Art Nouveau, the beginnings of modern Czech architecture, modern painting and sculpture, through the emergence of the Czechoslovak state in 1918 and the construction of Prague as the capital of the republic, the beginnings of functionalism and constructivism, modern applied art...