Spring Awakening. Avant-garde Art as Asylum for Refugees from Totalitarian Ideologies (Czechoslovakia, 1934-1939)

Abstract

In the 1930s, the Czechoslovak Republic became a place of asylum for refugees from Nazism and Fascism. Among them were artists, whose work was given new meaning with the fight for freedom of expression.

Fundamental from this point of view became the avant-garde movements.

Keywords

• Czech Avant-garde Art
• Emigration
• Hannes Beckmann
• Oskar Kokoschka
• Emil Frantisek Burian