Apolinárská ulice by Emil Artur Pittermann - Praha, CZ
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N 50° 04.277 E 014° 25.479
33U E 458827 N 5546714
he Church of St Apollinaris with houses in Apolinárská Street and St. Adalbert statue (now trasfered several meters and outside of the view).
Waymark Code: WMXAR5
Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 12/18/2017
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"The facades of the old houses surrounding the Church were remodelled and the oldest middle building has an elegant Baroque portal. In the background on the left, beyond building No. 445, we can see the tip of building 446 (according to the map) approachable by a narrow access road running around the corner structure No. 444 (the only extant building of those on the picture). The smallest structure is the ill-famed Jedová chýše (The Poisonous Shanty) pub, according to the map No. 448. However, all literature cites No. 446 as the building, a fact that might be explained by the possible link of this house with the tall building in the background. (But it also may be a cartographic error.) On the right, on the corner of Vinicná Street, we can see a part of building No. 440. The Church of St Apollinaris, built some time after 1362, stands on a little hill called Vetrov (Windy). One of the buildings in the vicinity was owned by king Wenceslas IV. It was perhaps because of its position or its distance from the more populated areas that the church was one of very few buildings spared from the destruction caused by many wars. Surprisingly, even the Prussian military which set up its workshop here for the production of ammunition in 1757, caused no substantial harm to the church."
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Emil Artur Pittermann byl synem notáre z Vlašimi. Vystudoval gymnázium v Benešove, od roku 1904 studoval na Akademii výtvarných umení v Praze u profesora Františka Thieleho. Z akademie byl vyloucen v roce 1908 za kázenské prestupky. Pitterman byl všestranne nadaný, ale casto neukáznený, díky tomu se o nem šírily fámy a legendy.
Již za studií (1907) se podílel na vytvorení malírské skupiny Osma, jejímiž cleny byli napr. Emil Filla a Bohumil Kubišta. Jako malír inklinoval zprvu k postimpresionismu a expresionismu, pozdeji byl ovlivnen kubismem a sociálními motivy. Krome obrazu tvoril kresby, ilustrace a karikatury do svých knih a casopisu.
Emil Artur Pittermann was the son of a notary from Vlašim. He graduated from the grammar school in Benešov, and from 1904 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague under Professor František Thiele. He was expelled from the academy in 1908 for disciplinary offenses. Pitterman was universally gifted, but often unruly, thanks to his rumors and legends.
Already in his studies (1907) he was involved in the creation of the Osma painting group, whose members were eg Emil Filla and Bohumil Kubista. As a painter he first tended to post-Impressionism and Expressionism, he was later influenced by cubism and social motives. In addition to paintings, he composed drawings, illustrations, and cartoons in his books and magazines.