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Karel Teige (13 December 1900 – 1 October 1951) was a Czech modernist avant-garde artist, writer, critic and one of the most important figures of the 1920s and 1930s movement. He was a member of the Devětsil (Butterbur) movement in the 1920s and also worked as an editor and graphic designer for Devětsil's monthly magazine ReD (Revue Devětsilu). One of his major works on architecture theory is The Minimum Dwelling (1932).[1]

Karel Teige
Teige with Toyen in 1925
Born(1900-12-13)13 December 1900
Prague, Austria-Hungary
Died1 October 1951(1951-10-01) (aged 50)
Prague, Czechoslovakia
OccupationPublicist, literary critic
NationalityCzech
RelativesJosef Teige (father)

Life and career


Teige was born in Prague. With evidently endless energy, he introduced modern art to Prague. Devětsil-sponsored exhibitions and events brought international avant-garde figures like Le Corbusier, Man Ray, Paul Klee, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Walter Gropius, among many others, to lecture and perform in Prague. Teige interpreted their work, sometimes literally, for the Czech audience. In his 1935 Prague lecture, André Breton paid tribute to his "perfect intellectual fellowship" with Teige and Nezval: "Constantly interpreted by Teige in the most lively way, made to undergo an all-powerful lyric thrust by Nezval, Surrealism can flatter itself that it has blossomed in Prague as it has in Paris."[2]

Although not an architect, Teige was an articulate and knowledgeable architecture critic, an active participant in CIAM, and friends with Hannes Meyer, the second director of the Bauhaus. From 1929 to 1930 he gave guest lectures at the Bauhaus in Dessau.[3] At the same time, he participated in the establishment of the Left Front.

Teige and Meyer both believed in a scientific, functionalist approach to architecture, grounded in Marxist principles. In 1929 he famously criticized Le Corbusier's Mundaneum project (planned for Geneva but never built) on the grounds that Corbusier had departed from rational functionalism, and was on his way to becoming a mere stylist. Teige believed that 'the only aim and scope of modern architecture is the scientific solution of exact tasks of rational construction.'

After welcoming the Soviet army as liberators, Teige was silenced by the Communist government in 1948. In 1951 he died in Prague of a heart attack, said to be a result of a ferocious Soviet press campaign against him as a 'Trotskyist degenerate,' his papers were destroyed by the secret police, and his published work was suppressed for decades.


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References


  1. The Minimum Dwelling. mitpress.mit.edu.
  2. "Surrealist situation of the object" in Breton, André (1972). Manifestoes of Surrealism. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-06182-8., p256
  3. Dluhosch, Eric (ed.); Svacha, Rostislav (ed.) (1999) Karel Teige / 1900-1951: L’enfant terrible of the Czech modernist avant-garde. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.



На других языках


- [en] Karel Teige

[fr] Karel Teige

Né à Prague le 13 décembre 1900 et mort à Prague le 1er octobre 1951, Karel Teige est un artiste et critique tchèque qui s'est notamment intéressé à la typographie et à l'architecture. Marxiste, proche des surréalistes français (André Breton et Paul Éluard) et chef de file de l'avant-garde tchèque, notamment des groupes Devětsil (dont il est fondateur en 1920) et de Léva Fronta (Le Front de la gauche, fondé en 1929), il fut un important théoricien de l'art en Tchécoslovaquie : il rédigea ainsi le manifeste du poétisme et un manifeste du constructivisme, Le constructivisme ou la liquidation de l'art. Il fonda également la revue ReD.

[ru] Тейге, Карел

Карел Тейге (чеш. Karel Teige, 13 декабря 1900, Прага — 1 октября 1951, там же) — чешский писатель, переводчик, литературный критик, публицист, художник-график, книжный оформитель, теоретик искусства, занимался архитектурой, фотографией, кино. Крупнейшая фигура восточноевропейского авангарда.



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