Zdenka (Jarmila) Mokrá-Burghauserová

Zdenka (Jarmila) Mokrá-Burghauserová
Chrudim 1894 – 1960 Prague
Majova
Mixed media on paper
32 x 19.5 cm, with frame 58.5 x 48.5 cm

Zdenka (Jarmila) Mokrá-Burghauserová (1894–1960) was a Czech painter, graphic artist, and educator. After studying at the School of Applied Arts in Prague, she taught in Plzeň and Prague while simultaneously creating a diverse body of artistic work that garnered significant attention, particularly during World War II. She undertook numerous study trips to Southern and Western Europe, Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria.
In 1920, she was a founding member of the Circle of Women Artists (Kruh výtvarných umělkyň) and was actively involved in promoting the international visibility of Czech art in the late 1920s.” Artists. Her correspondence documents, in particular, her crucial role in the exhibitions held in Amsterdam and The Hague in 1929. Despite personal crises and a temporary ban on exhibiting from 1948 to 1957, she thus made an important contribution to the artistic emancipation of women and to the cultural representation of the young Czechoslovakia.