page_title: František Muzika
section_title: Third period (1936-about 1948)
hierarchical_section_title: František Muzika / Paintings / Third period (1936-about 1948)
caption_attribution_description: Čeština: Československá poštovní známka – Umění 1969 – obraz F. Muzika, Velké rekviem
context_page_description: František Muzika was a Czech artist and a prominent representative of avant-garde in Czechoslovakia in the first half of the 20th century. He was a member of Devětsil since 1921 and Mánes since 1923.
  Muzika was a painter, graphic designer, stage designer, illustrator, editor and professor at the Academy of Arts and Industrial Design in Prague.
context_section_description: Muzika reacted to the Spanish Civil War, the occupation of Czechoslovakia, and the brutality of war. Muzika's wartime period shows the torment and grief of this tragic time with allegorical pictures.   His paintings with imaginary landscapes, dark atmospheres, and jarring metaphors created the feeling of dramatic tension and darkness of the time.
caption: Czechoslovak postage stamp 1969 -- F. Muzika, 'Velké rekviem'
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