Miloslava Vrbova-Štefková | Ballet dancers

Czech artist Miloslava Vrbova-Štefková (1909-1991) was an traditionalist post-impressionist painter.

During the 1937-1938 Miloslava Vrbova-Štefková studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris with Czech Abstract painter František Kupka (1871-1957).

Besides the dancers, the ballet scenes and portraits, Miloslava Vrbova also painted landscapes and the Prague urban motifs, religious scenes (the Crucifixion in the church Žinkovie), still lifes and flowers.

Miloslava-Vrbova was a respected portrait painter; in the seventies he went to the United States to paint family portraits of President Ronald Reagan.

In her paintings you can see the admiration for Edgar Degas and French post-impressionists.

She was a member of the Aleš Prague Society of Artists, and exhibited at their joint exhibition in 1944.

She exhibited independently in Prague in 1943, 1946, 1948 and 1952 and in Brno in 1943.

L'artista Ceca Miloslava Vrbova-Štefková (1909-1991) è stata una pittrice post-impressionista tradizionalista.

Nel 1937-1938, si reca a Parigi, dove studia presso l'Académie des Beaux-Arts con il prof. František Kupka (1871-1957).

Miloslava Vrbova era una ritrattista rispettata; negli anni Settanta si reca negli Stati Uniti per dipingere ritratti di famiglia del presidente Ronald Reagan.

Oltre ai ballerini, le scene di balletto ed i ritratti, Miloslava Vrbova ha dipinto anche paesaggi e motivi urbani dalla Praga, scene religiose (la Crocifissione nella chiesa di Žinkovie), nature morte e fiori.

Nei suoi dipinti si nota l'ammirazione per Edgar Degas ed i post-impressionisti francesi.