RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Říhová, Vladislava
A1 Machačko, Luboš
T1 Sgraffiti of the 1950s. Mapping the occurrence, condition, attribution, and circumstances of socialist realism sgraffiti
JF Průzkumy památek
YR 2018
VO 25
IS 2
SP 51
OP 64
DO 10.56112/pp.2018.2.05
UL https://pruzkumypamatek.cz/en/artkey/prp-201802-0005.php
AB Using the sgraffiti technique in social realism architecture is understood as the consequence of the inspiration of creators by Czech Renaissance monuments. Although this course played an important role in the composition of facades highlighting the national tradition, the occurrence of sgraffiti on European facades was quite abundant. Blanket research of post-war sgraffiti in the Czech lands seeks to at least partly compensate the missing professional literature that would pursue this issue. With respect to the historical and handicraft value of the artwork, and taking account of the fact that they are part of national heritage buildings, the socialist realism sgraffiti in our view is a distinctive art discipline that deserves more attentive care and conservation despite the fact that the works were created under special circumstances when architecture was a tool of ideological propaganda of the Stalinist totalitarian regime.