Jan Burka (June 14, 1924, Postoloprty - September 4, 2009, L'Isle sur la Sorgue was a Czech painter, graphic artist and sculptor.
Biography
Born on 14 June 1924 in Postoloprty as the younger son in an intermarriage. In 1940 he studied at a private art school and then attended a course in graphics at the Vinohrady Synagogue, led by Petr Kien. After some time in Prague he was deported as Geltungsjude and was sent to Terezín on 10 August 1942. In Terezín he was once again reunited with Petr Kien and even in the difficult conditions in the ghetto continued to study drawing. In Terezín, he lived to see liberation. He also met here his future wife, renowned figure skater Ellen Burka, née Danby, who was raised in the Netherlands.
After World War II, Danby and Burka settled in Amsterdam, where he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Rijksakademie beeldende van Kunsten) under Lütke and Westerman. From 1945-1951 he worked as a graphic artist in Amsterdam.
In 1951 he moved to Toronto in Canada, where he studied at the Ontario College of Art & Design. There he was linked to Henri Chopin.[1] He also founded his own graphic arts studio and together with Alain Fleming was a co-founder of a Canadian group of designers. From 1961-1968, he settled in France, where he made his first reliefs and sculptures. In 1968 he went back to Toronto, where he lived and worked until 1978. Most of these works are now located in Canadian museums.
Burka attended more than a hundred exhibitions in Europe, Canada and the United States. His works are exhibited in a number of Canadian, American and European museums and are part of important private collections. In 1968 he received the Ontario price Centenaire du Canada. Burka also won numerous awards for his graphic work and his "Concrete poetry", part of an anthology of experimental poetry, published in 1967
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