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Czech Republic
Eastern Europe
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Antonín Rehák
1902-1970
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Antonín Rehák lived and died in Svatý Kopecek near Olomouc in the Czech Republic. He was born in a carpenter's family and was the eldest of his nine brothers and sisters. He finished eight forms of the primary school. Since childhood he had to work hard and take care of his younger brothers. Between 1918 and 1928 he had several different jobs - bricklayer, worker in a cement plant, concreter, stuccoer. He learnt to do locksmith's and joiner's work, held jobs in a toy workshop and in a sawmill.
In 1924 he got married. From the late 1920s he had a gardener's job with the Archbishopic and with the then well-known Olomouc retailing firm Ander and Sons, for whom he did gardening in Svatý Kopecek. This pilgrimage place developed, thanks to his diligent hands, into a beautiful place and he became renowned far and wide as a founder of gardens and ornamental flowerbeds. He came to live in a house not far from a romantic pond with weeping willow trees he had planted himself. He was fond of drawing and he painted already when a schoolboy. He also produced works in wood, plaster and papier maché figurines, carnival masks.
He began to paint systematically in 1960. With his work he joined those painters of reality that portray everything with such amazing care and sense of detail as if they had seen the reality for the first time. In his many drawings and vivid paintings Antonín Rehák reveals his poetic vision of the world he knew so well and helped to protect.
He exhibited for the first time in an old people's home in Chvalkovice. In a national context his work was presented in 1963 in Prague, abroad he was introduced at the EXPO 1967 in Montreal. Since then he has been represented at all exhibitions of Czech naivist art in this country and abroad. His work was acquired by the North Bohemian of Fine Arts Gallery in Litomerice, the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava, and the Folklore Museum in Prague.
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Basic literature:
Bihajli-Merin, O. -- Tomaševic, Nebojša -- Bato: Weltenzyklopädie naive Kunst. Stuttgart 1989.
Parkland Verlag -- A. P. = Arsén Pohribný, s. 502-503.
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1 Images and text graciously provided by Pavel Konecny, collector. |
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