Jirí Wolker - Prostejov, Czech Republic - Dead Poets' Society Memorials on Waymarking.com

The statue of a Czech poet Jirí Wolker (1900–1924) can be found at Svatopluk Cech' square in Prostejov. The statue is made og a travertine stone and it was sculpted by Antonín Kalvoda in 1951. Jiri Wolker was born just a few hundred meters from the statue location in 1900.

Biography

Jiri Wolker (March 29, 1900 – January 3, 1924) was a Czech poet, journalist and playwright. He was one of the founding members of CPC - Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in 1921.He was in a close connection with the association of Czech avant-garde artists Devetsil. Wolker suffered of lung disease and died in the age of 24.

Jiri Wolker belonged to the generation traumatised by the First World War but also dazzled by the creation of an independent Czechoslovak state in 1918. The young people of his generation sought a new vision of the world, new faith and a new means of expressing their belief in social revolution as the key to the solution of human problems. From the very beginning of the 1920s, Wolker's work contained features of the new literary style: naivety, primitivism, harmony among people and objects. Commonplace, everyday life and concrete, simple things became poetic. After he died at the age of twenty-four, Jiri Wolker became widely read and venerated. His premature death fixed his image in the public mind for a long time to come. Wolker himself saw his own death as part of the all important task of transforming himself in order to fit the dream of the revolution which he believed to be the only means of saving society and bringing about a new order of creativity.

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