Marienbad with all its beauty has inspired hundreds of artists during its existence. Enjoy some pieces of famous Czech masters, who represents the Best of Czech culture and arts. It’s free – all the artworks are situated right in the streets of Marienbad.
Olbram Zoubek in Marienbad
Olbram Zoubek is one of the most important Czech contemporary sculptors and designers and probably the most famous Czech sculptor of whole the 20’s century. His artworks are decorating many of important buildings and memorials, but are also a part of Czech modern history – among others there are the examples of the famous Jan Palach bust and the tomb of the Havel family.
Olbram Zoubek spent a long time in Marienbad, so fortunately the town can boast not with the one only – but even with three of his artworks. The most famous is the Scupture of Three Graces, located nearby the Music Pavilion in the Park around the Forest Spring. A typical Zoubek’s manuscript is perceptible also on sculptures decorating the attic of the Butterfly hotel, located right on the Main Street. The last piece is kind of a hidden gem. Go inside the Cross Pavilion on the Collonade and find a rounded seepage. Lean on the forged railings – and you’re already touching the artwork designed by Olbram Zoubek and his wife Eva Kmentová.
Vítězslav Eibl
The most important local modern artist lived almost whole his life in Marienbad. He made many of sculptures, which are decorating the town these days and some of them became really popular – as the Sculpture of Two European Rulers, one of inherent symbols of the town today. If you are interesting in arts, don’t miss other his sculpture portrayal of some famous visitors of Marienbad – Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Sigmund Freud or Theodor Lessing. All the busts and sculptures are located nearby the town centre.
Josef Vyleťal
The author of the Main Collonade ceiling frescos is Czech painter and graphic designer Josef Vyleťal. He’s probably the most successful Czech surrealist – after his participation on an exhibition in Barcelona he received a letter, expressing an admiration from famous Salvator Dalí. He also get a fame as designer of movie posters and has been awarded on the International Film Festival of Chicago in 1979. But his most impressive art work is decoration of the Collonade ceilings – over 600 m² of painting inspired by human desire to fly is divided to 3 parts. The first one is showing ideas and fantasies of prehistoric people, the second one is dedicated to ancient deities and the most popular last part is inspired by space traveling and its achievements.
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