Zdenka (Jarmila) Mokrá-Burghauserová

Zdenka (Jarmila) Mokrá-Burghauserová
Chrudim 1894 – 1960 Prague
Untitled
Oil on canvas
130 x 106 cm
Inscribed on the back of the stretcher: Zdenka Burghauserov
Label Exhibition of Czechoslovakian Women Artists in Amsterdam February to March 1922

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 at the same time creating a diverse body of artistic work that attracted considerable attention, especially during the Second World War. She undertook numerous study trips to Southern and Western Europe, Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria.
In 1920, she was one of the founding members of the Circle of Women Artists (Kruh výtvarných umělkyň) and was strongly committed to raising the international profile of Czech women artists in the late 1920s. Her correspondence documents in particular her decisive role in the exhibitions held in Amsterdam and The Hague in 1929. Despite personal crises and a temporary ban on exhibitions from 1948 to 1957, she made an important contribution to the artistic emancipation of women and the cultural representation of the young Czechoslovakia.