Eva Švankmajerová
Eva Švankmajerová was a Czech surrealist artist. She was born Eva Dvořáková. A native of the Czech town of Kostelec nad Černými lesy, she moved to Prague in 1958 to study at the Prague School of Interior Design and later the Academy of Performing Arts. From 1970, she was an active member of the Czech and Slovak Surrealist Group. She was a painter and ceramicist, and her poetry and prose regularly appeared in the journal Analogon. Most recently, her work has appeared in English in Surrealist Women: an International Anthology and . Švankmajerová was married to the Surrealist filmmaker Jan Švankmajer, with whom she collaborated on such films as Alice, Faust, and Conspirators of Pleasure. They had two children, Veronika and Václav, and lived in Prague until her death in 2005.Filmography
- 1964 - The Last Trick - production assistant, director: Jan Švankmajer
- 1967 - The Garden - costume designer, director: Jan Švankmajer
- 1971 - Jsouc na řece mlynář jeden - designer, director: J. Brdečka
- 1976 - Laterna magika: Ztracená pohádka - designer, director: Jaromil Jireš
- 1978 - The Ninth Hearth - visual effects, director: Juraj Herz
- 1983 - The Pit, the Pendulum and Hope - designer, director: Jan Švankmajer
- 1986 - Jost Burgi - Demystifikace času a prostoru - animator, director: M. Havas
- 1987 - Laterna magika: Odysseus - animator, director: E. Schorm
- 1987 - Alice - designer, director: Jan Švankmajer
- 1994 - Lesson Faust - designer, director: Jan Švankmajer
- 1996 - Conspirators of Pleasure - designer, director: Jan Švankmajer
- 2000 - Little Otík - designer, director: Jan Švankmajer
- 2005 - Šílení - designer, director: Jan Švankmajer
Books
- Baradla Cave - Original Czech edition
- - English translation
- Anima Animus Animation - Text in English
In English
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- in The Independent by Marcus Williamson
- in The Guardian by Christopher Masters
In Czech
- BBC Czech
- Nekrolog.cz
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In Slovak
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In French
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