Josef Stejskal (artist)
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Josef Stejskal (also known as Josef Lada Stejskal and Josef "Pepča" Stejskal; born 3 March 1945, Kroměříž)[1] is a Czech-Australian artist best-known for his theatre posters.
He worked as a stage designer in Husa na provázku Theatre in Brno. Since 1978, he has lived in Australia.[2] He worked at the State Library of New South Wales.[3]
A collection of his posters were exhibited at the Seymour Centre in 1986, a part of which were acquired by the State Library of New South Wales; others joined the Library's collection later from the Dennis Wolanski Library.[4][5][6] Another group was acquired by the National Library of Australia in 1989, and Stejskal made donations to the National Gallery of Australia.[7][8] Image galleries of Josef Stejskal's best-known artworks can be found at the NGA and at the Moravian Gallery in Brno;[9][10] others are held in the Václav Havel Library in Prague.[11]
He appears as "Pepča Psejčkař" in the autobiographical novel Hvězdy kvelbu (Stars of Suffering) by Pavel Řezníček, about the Brno Bohemian circle in the 1960s and 70s.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ "Josef Lada Stejskal". printsandprintmaking.gov.au. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
- ^ "Stejskal, Josef (Pepča)" (in Czech). Municipal Library of Prague. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
- ^ "Unclassified" (PDF). State Library of New South Wales Magazine. Sydney: State Library of New South Wales. December 2008. p. 4. ISSN 1835-9787. Retrieved 26 May 2025.
- ^ "Catalogue of the SLNSW".
- ^ "Catalogue of the SLNSW".
- ^ "Poster for Poster Exhibit, Seymour Centre, 1986".
- ^ 29th Annual Report 1988–89. Canberra: National Library of Australia. 1989. p. 15. ISSN 0313-1971. Retrieved 26 May 2025.
- ^ "National Gallery of Australia Collection".
- ^ "Josef Lada Stejskal".
- ^ "Autor: Josef Stejskal". Sbírky online. Moravian Gallery in Brno. Retrieved 26 May 2025.
- ^ "Josef Stejskal". Václav Havel Library. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
- ^ Hanáčková, Milada (2010). "Brněnská bohéma - umělecká avantgarda přelomu 60. a 70. let (Brno Bohemia - the artistic avant-garde of the late 1960s and early 1970s)" (BA Thesis). Masarykova Univerzita Filozofická Fakulta (Masaryk University Faculty of Philosophy) (in Czech). pp. 7, 20, 23. Retrieved 31 May 2025.