Studio: international art (85.1923)

STUDIO-TALK

“ JEUNE FILLE MELANCO-
LIQUE." BY JAN STURSA

PRAGUE.—Of all the sculptors of this
land of fine sculptors, Czecho-Slo-
vakia, no one has shown greater originality
or greater versatility than Jan Stursa.
When we pass his work in review—begin-
ning with the period when he was still
under the influence of his master Myslbek,
in whose studio so many of the younger
generation of Czecho-Slovakian sculptors
were trained, and ending with the days
after the Great War, when he produced
that most impressive statuette in bronze
entitled Wounded, representing a soldier,
shot through the head, in the act of falling

—one cannot but marvel at the fertility
and strength of his genius. a a
Born in 1880 at Nove Mesto, in Moravia,
and receiving his early art training at the
Prague Academy of Arts, he naturally came
under the influence of the impressionism
of his predecessors in sculpture, but it was
not long before he followed his own bent,

ALLEGORY." BY
JAN STURSA

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