Views of the Beautyful Grand Cafe Orient in Prague
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Otto Gutfreund, Cubist Bust, Museum of Czech Cubism, Prague
Otto Gutfreund, Cubist Bust, Museum of Czech Cubism, Prague Otto Gutfreund Otto Gutfreund (3 August 1889 – 2 June 1927) also written Oto Gutfreund, was a Czechoslovak sculptor . After studying art in Prague and Paris, he became known in the 1910s for his sculptures in a cubist style. After his service in the First World War he worked in a more realistic style. His later work includes many small polychrome ceramic figures as well as architectural decorations. Early life Josef Gočár's Legiobank Building, Prague (1922–23). Relief on facade by Gutfreund. Otto Gutfreund was born in the town of Dvůr Králové nad Labem, Bohemia, into a Jewish family as the fourth of five children of Karel and Emilie Gutfreund. During 1903 to 1906 he studied pottery at the Škola výtvarných umění (School of Creative Arts) in the town of Bechyně. From 1906 to 1909 he studied in the figurative and ornamental modelling departm...