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Eva Švankmajerová (25 September 1940 – 20 October 2005) was a
Czech
surrealist
artist. She was born Eva Dvořáková. A native of the Czech town of
Kostelec nad Černými lesy, she moved to
Prague in 1958 to study at the
Prague School of Interior Design and later the
Academy of Performing Arts (Theater Department). From 1970, she was an active member of the
Czech and Slovak Surrealist Group. She was a painter and
ceramicist, and her poetry and prose regularly appeared in the journal
Analogon. Most recently, her work has appeared in English in
Surrealist Women: an International Anthology (Austin:
University of Texas Press, 1998) and
Baradla Cave (
Twisted Spoon Press, 2001). Švankmajerová was married to the Surrealist filmmaker
Jan Švankmajer, with whom she collaborated on such films as
Alice,
Faust, and
Conspirators of Pleasure. They had two children, Veronika and Václav, and lived in Prague until her death from breast cancer in 2005.
Filmography
- 1964 – The Last Trick (orig. Poslední trik pana Schwarcewalldea a pana Edgara) – production assistant, director: Jan Švankmajer
- 1967 – The Garden (org. Zahrada) – costume designer, director: Jan Švankmajer
- 1971 – Jsouc na řece mlynář jeden – designer, director: J. Brdečka
- 1976 –
Laterna magika: Ztracená pohádka – designer, director: Jaromil Jireš
- 1978 – The Ninth Hearth (orig. Deváté srdce) – visual effects, director:
Juraj Herz
- 1983 – The Pit, the Pendulum and Hope (orig. Kyvadlo, jáma a naděje) – designer, director: Jan Švankmajer
- 1986 – Jost Burgi – Demystifikace času a prostoru – animator, director: M. Havas
- 1987 – Laterna magika: Odysseus – animator, director: E. Schorm
- 1987 – Alice (orig. Něco z Alenky) – designer, director: Jan Švankmajer
- 1994 – Lesson Faust (orig. Lekce Faust) – designer, director: Jan Švankmajer
- 1996 –
Conspirators of Pleasure (orig. Spiklenci slasti) – designer, director: Jan Švankmajer
- 2000 –
Little Otík (orig. Otesánek) – designer, director: Jan Švankmajer
- 2005 – Šílení – designer, director: Jan Švankmajer
Books
See also
External links
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