Edouard Vysekal
{{short description|American painter}}
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| name = Edouard Antonin Vysekal
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| birth_date = March 17, 1890
| birth_place = Kutná Hora, Bohemia
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1939|12|02|1890|03|17}}
| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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| other_names = Edward Antonin Vysekal
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| occupation = Painter
| employer = School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Students League of Los Angeles, Otis College of Art and Design
| spouse = Luvena Vysekal
| relatives = Ella Buchanan (sister-in-law)
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File:Edouard Vysekal - Winterish, St. Paul (1911).jpg
Edouard Vysekal (1890 – December 2, 1939) was a Bohemia-born American painter and art educator.{{cite news |title=Friends Honor Artist's Memory: Edouard A. Vysekal's Work as Teacher and Craftsman Praised |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/385557097/?terms=%22edouard%2BVysekal%22 |accessdate=July 25, 2020 |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=December 11, 1939|page=6|via=Newspapers.com}} He was active in Chicago and Southern California.
Biography
Vysekal was born on March 17, 1890, in Kutná Hora, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was born into a family of artists.{{Cite web|title=Edouard Antonin Vysekal - Biography|url=https://www.askart.com/artist/Edouard_Antonin_Vysekal/19525/Edouard_Antonin_Vysekal.aspx|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-13|website=AskArt.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905091934/http://www.askart.com/artist/Edouard_Antonin_Vysekal/19525/Edouard_Antonin_Vysekal.aspx |archive-date=2015-09-05 }} Vysekal began his art education in Prague. Around 1907, he moved to St Paul, Minnesota to join his father. Later studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) under John Vanderpoel, Stanton MacDonald-Wright, Harry Mills Walcott, and Morgan Russell.
He taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (from 1912 to 1914) and around 1914, he married a student Luvena Buchanan.{{cite web|title=Luvena Vysekal newspaper clippings and photos relating to Edouard Vysekal, 1910-1942|url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/luvena-vysekal-newspaper-clippings-and-photos-relating-to-edouard-vysekal-6249|accessdate=July 25, 2020|website=Archives of American Art|publisher=Smithsonian Institution}} The couple moved to Southern California after marriage.
Additionally he taught at the Art Students League of Los Angeles, and the Otis College of Art and Design (formally Otis Art Institute; from 1922 to 1939).{{cite web |title=Luvena Vysekal newspaper clippings and photos relating to Edouard Vysekal, 1910-1942 |url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/luvena-vysekal-newspaper-clippings-and-photos-relating-to-edouard-vysekal-6249 |website=Archives of American Art |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |accessdate=July 25, 2020}} His work is in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.{{cite web |title=Edouard Antonin Vysekal |url=https://collections.lacma.org/node/166803 |website=LACMA |accessdate=July 25, 2020}}
Further reading
- {{cite book |last1=Yoshiki-Kovinick |first1=Marian |title=Love Never Fails: The Art of Edouard and Luvena Vysekal |date=2011 |publisher=Pasadena Museum of California Art |location=Pasadena, California |isbn=9781450790291|oclc=764728125}}
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Category:School of the Art Institute of Chicago faculty
Category:Otis College of Art and Design faculty
Category:Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States
Category:American male painters
Category:Painters from Los Angeles
Category:20th-century American painters
Category:20th-century American male artists
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