Metadata: Saudek Rudolf
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- Archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiv Židovského muzea v Praze
- Postal address:
- Stroupežnického 32, Praha 5, 150 00
- Phone number:
- 00420222749111
- Web address:
- http://www.jewishmuseum.cz/
- Email:
- office@jewishmuseum.cz
- Reference number:
- 290
- Title:
- Saudek Rudolf
- Title (official language):
- Saudek Rudolf
- Creator/accumulator:
- Rudolf Saudek
- Date(s):
- 1893/1965
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- English
- Spanish; Castilian
- Extent:
- 0.77 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains personal documents, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, drafts of various treatises and plays, translations, photographs of sculptures (1893–1965).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Rudolf Saudek (1880–1965) was an academy-trained sculptor, graphic artist and translator. He was born in Kolín nad Labem on 21 October 1880. He attended the art academy in Leipzig, where he lived from 1910, and later went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague; he also studied in Florence and Paris. In 1938 he was forced to abandon his workshop in Leipzig, leaving behind a lot of work and sculptor's tools. On 8 February 1942 he was deported from Prague (Transport W) to the Terezín ghetto, where he led a pottery and sculpture group. After being liberated in Terezín, he returned home in broken health. An acclaimed portrait sculptor, he sculpted many important cultural figures of his day. His work is represented in museums in the Hague, Lucerne, London, Leipzig and Prague. His most famous prints are etchings for Dante's Divine Comedy. He exhibited regularly in Leipzig between 1912 and 1933 and in the Purkyně gallery in Prague after the war. He published material, translated and gave lectures. He died in Prague on 19 July 1965.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Saudek, Rudolf
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged as follows: personal documents, correspondence, drafts of plays and treatises, drafts of lectures and newspaper/magazine articles, newspaper and magazine cuttings (including material about Rudolf Saudek), printed reproductions of artworks, translations, artworks, photography albums, photography collections, magazine copies with articles about Rudolf Saudek, hand-written notes, varia.
- Finding aids:
- Hanková M: Rudolf Saudek (1880-1965), Inventář, 2013, 11 s., AP č. 286
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
