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Jiří Kolář

Jiří Kolář was a French, Czech and Czechoslovak writer, translator, playwright, painter, poet and draftsperson (1914–2002). He was born in Protivín and died in Prague.

Also recorded as Jiri Kolar · Jirí Kolár · Jiri Kolár · Jiri Kollar

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Biography

He also worked under the name Kolar, Jiri. The authorities additionally record the headings Jiri Kolar, Jirí Kolár, Jiri Kolár, Jiri Kollar and Jiři Kolář. His recorded languages were French, Czech, German and English.

Seifert, Jaroslav. Morový sloup = The Plague monument, 1980. Kolář, Jiří. Composition, 1979.

Jiří Kolář is recorded as writer, translator, playwright, painter and poet.

Jiří Kolář is recorded as having received Silver Medal of the President of the Senate, Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, 2nd class and Jaroslav Seifert Prize.

The recorded working language is French, Czech and German.

The field of work recorded is literature, visual poetry and experimental poetry.

Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris.

Work by Jiří Kolář is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Finnish National Gallery, Tate, National Gallery of Canada and Museum of Modern Art.

Distinctions recorded are Silver Medal of the President of the Senate, Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, 2nd class, Jaroslav Seifert Prize and honorary citizen of Prague.

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Jiří Kolář worked at Paris.

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Life and career

Explore 1914–2002

  1. 1914

    Life

    Jiří Kolář born at Protivín.

  2. 1968

    Institution

    Reverence to Columbus (Israel Museum).

  3. 1979

    Institution

    Kolář, Jiří. Composition, 1979. Collage (Exchange Gallery).

  4. 1980

    Seifert, Jaroslav. Morový sloup = The Plague monument, 1980. Book (Czech Exile Collection at Libri Prohibiti).

  5. 1980

    Morový sloup = The plague monument / by Jaroslav Seifert; translation by Lyn Coffin; [ill. by Jiří Kolář]. (Wellcome Collection).

  6. 1982

    Institution

    Homage to Georges Braque (Metropolitan Museum of Art).

  7. 2002

    Life

    Jiří Kolář died at Prague.

The full dated record · 7 entries

  1. 1914

    Jiří Kolář born at Protivín.

  2. 1968

    Reverence to Columbus (Israel Museum).

  3. 1979

    Kolář, Jiří. Composition, 1979. Collage (Exchange Gallery).

  4. 1980

    Seifert, Jaroslav. Morový sloup = The Plague monument, 1980. Book (Czech Exile Collection at Libri Prohibiti).

  5. 1980

    Morový sloup = The plague monument / by Jaroslav Seifert; translation by Lyn Coffin; [ill. by Jiří Kolář]. (Wellcome Collection).

  6. 1982

    Homage to Georges Braque (Metropolitan Museum of Art).

  7. 2002

    Jiří Kolář died at Prague.

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  • Prague
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  • Protivín

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Collections

Jiří Kolář received Silver Medal of the President of the Senate, Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, 2nd class, Jaroslav Seifert Prize, honorary citizen of Prague and Czech Medal of Merit, 2nd class.

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Jiří Kolář is recorded with the occupation draftsperson.

Jiří Kolář is recorded with the occupation playwright. Recorded with the occupation translator. Recorded with the occupation painter. Recorded with the occupation writer.

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Literature

Bibliography

Literature and Photography: Media’s Quest to Decipher the Mystery of the Everyday, Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 2024. Concomitant antihypertensive medication and outcome of patients with metastatic castration‐resistant prostate cancer receiving enzalutamide or abiraterone acetate, Cancer Medicine, 2024.

  • Kolář, Jiří, Oxford Art Online, 2003

  • Jiří Kolář l'æil de Prague suivi de La Prague de Kafka et de Réponses par Jiří Kolář, World Literature Today, 1988

  • Kolář, Jiří, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020

  • Jiří Kolář, Ligeia, 2013

  • Brancusi and His Poets, Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 1985

  • Pustá země T. S. Eliota ve dvou českých překladech, Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica, 2022

  • Some Remarks on my Composition Technique, Musicology Today, 2015

  • Draft Guidelines for the Allocation of Public Logistics Centres of International Importance, Communications, 2014

  • From Report to Mythus

  • Jiří Kolář’s Plays as Creative Transformation of the Shoah Testimonies, Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, 2017

  • SOCIÁLNÍ DOPADY NÁKLADNÍ DOPRAVY NA ŽIVOTNÍ PROSTŘEDÍ, Perner’s Contacts, 2012

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