Abstract
Marie Fischerová-Kvěchová is a Czech painter and illustrator of children's books. She was very popular and active in the time of the First Czechoslovak Republic and almost forgotten during the period of Communism.
I will deal with her complete work in my doctoral thesis. The aim of this essay is to present that part of artist's work which is inspired by folk art.
Marie Fischerová-Kvěchová was interested in folk culture throughout all her life. She visited ethnographic regions in Bohemia and abroad, where she made sketches, she collected folk shoes and toys, she illustrated folk songs and poems.
She started her artistic career after the First World War, in the time of reinforced patriotism and nationalism. In that period artists looked back to their history and searched for the original Czech art.
Folk art was considered to be one of these pure sources. Marie Fischerová-Kvěchová participated in this effort by her membership in Zádruha, the association of handmade production, where she designed clothing inspired by folk costumes.