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Jan Štursa

Jan Štursa was a sculptor, exhibition curator, teacher, illustrator and medalist (1880–1925). He was born in Nové Město na Moravě and died in Prague.

Also recorded as Jan Stursa

Biography

Jan Štursa is recorded as sculptor, exhibition curator, teacher, illustrator and medalist.

Jan Štursa studied at Academy of Fine Arts, Prague. Břetislav Benda and Ivan Severa are recorded as having studied under Jan Štursa. The recorded working language is Czech.

Work by Jan Štursa is recorded in the collections of National Gallery Prague.

Catalogued output

Works

Their recorded dates run from 1906 to 1927.

  • Statue of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

    1926

  • Probuzení

    1923

  • Statue of Bedřich Smetana in Litomyšl. statue Toilet

    1908. Gravestone of Otakar Georgius Paroubek

  • Statue of Svatopluk Čech in Vinohrady

    1924

  • Seafaring, dated 1927. Monument to Hana Kvapilová

    1913

  • Den a Noc

    1911

  • Práce

    1911

  • Humanita

    1911

  • Statue of a girl at Mozarteum

    1912

  • Man with a lyre

    1912

  • Woman with a Dolphin

    1910 · National Gallery Prague

  • Melancholic Girl

    1906 · National Gallery Prague

Dated record

Life and career

Explore 1880–1927

  1. 1880

    Life

    Jan Štursa was born in 1880 at Nové Město na Moravě.

  2. 1906

    Institution

    Melancholic Girl, dated 1906, held by National Gallery Prague.

  3. 1908

    statue Toilet is dated 1908.

  4. 1910

    Institution

    Woman with a Dolphin, dated 1910, held by National Gallery Prague.

  5. 1911

    Den a Noc is dated 1911.

  6. 1912

    Statue of a girl at Mozarteum is dated 1912.

  7. 1912

    Man with a lyre is dated 1912.

  8. 1913

    monument to Hana Kvapilová is dated 1913.

  9. 1923

    Probuzení is dated 1923.

  10. 1924

    Statue of Svatopluk Čech in Vinohrady is dated 1924.

  11. 1925

    Life

    Jan Štursa died in 1925 at Prague.

  12. 1926

    Statue of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk is dated 1926.

  13. 1927

    Seafaring is dated 1927.

The full dated record · 13 entries
  1. 1880

    Jan Štursa was born in 1880 at Nové Město na Moravě.

  2. 1906

    Melancholic Girl, dated 1906, held by National Gallery Prague.

  3. 1908

    statue Toilet is dated 1908.

  4. 1910

    Woman with a Dolphin, dated 1910, held by National Gallery Prague.

  5. 1911

    Den a Noc is dated 1911.

  6. 1912

    Statue of a girl at Mozarteum is dated 1912.

  7. 1912

    Man with a lyre is dated 1912.

  8. 1913

    monument to Hana Kvapilová is dated 1913.

  9. 1923

    Probuzení is dated 1923.

  10. 1924

    Statue of Svatopluk Čech in Vinohrady is dated 1924.

  11. 1925

    Jan Štursa died in 1925 at Prague.

  12. 1926

    Statue of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk is dated 1926.

  13. 1927

    Seafaring is dated 1927.

Named by the record

Places

Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.

  • Prague
Death or burial
Plotted from the places the record itself names, at the scale of their own extent.
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  • Nové Město na Moravě

    Birth place

Primary material

Documents and archives

scholarly publication

Institutional database

reference work

Citations

References

Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.

Held on the record

Further particulars

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Formation and teaching. Štursa studied at Academy of Fine Arts, Prague.

Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.

Štursa, Jan, Oxford Art Online, 2003. Štursa, Jan.

  • In public collections

  • Literature

The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.

Elsewhere in Sculpture

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