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Notes of biography

Hella Guth was born in 1912, near Carlsbad (Bohemia/Czechoslovakia). She died in 1992 in Paris. She followed studies to the School of Applied Arts in Vienna, then to the Academy of Beaux-Arts in Prague. She studies there not only the drawing and painting, but also graphic arts (in particular technique of woodcut). In the Thirties, Hella Guth collaborates by his illustrations in various magazines of Prague. The young artist also realized (1933) a series of woodcuts for “The Threepenny Opera” of Brecht; its work on this subject, published in its expenses, is noticed.
Little time after the Nazis seized the power in Germany (1933), Hella Guth organizes demonstrations of support to the refugees; she publishes a series of postcards of protest and collaborates with the satirical newspaper antifascist “Simplikus”. Hella Guth joined the German theater company in exile “Studio 34”, designing posters and decorations, not hesitating to take part in the adventure while going up on the scene. Czechoslovakia having been invaded by the Nazis in 1939, she must flee his country. A time in Poland, she leaves for England.
She married Franck Popper, born in this same country, theorist of art, critic and commissioner of exhibition. Together, and after various places of living (Vienna, London, Rome), they came to settle in Paris in 1951. Hella Guth felt the pressing need to be surrounded by the environment of the French capital, in an artistic middle which she considered in permanent state of agitation and intellectually stimulant. Her husband Popper was interested in aesthetics and kinetic art.
Hella Guth got her first exhibition in 1943 while she lived in London (Czech Institute); her painting, although still figurative, had already a surrealist mark. In Paris, she gave up the figuration. From 1954 to 1959, she exhibited to the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles. Hella Guth meets many artists, like Sonia Delaunay, Marcelle Cahn or Nicolas Schöffer. She bound friendship with the surrealists. She was very active. One can read a criticism of her painting: “Grounds with warm colors agreeably arranged and accentuated with right linear layouts”.
It will be noted that in 1958, with other painters and writers, Hella Guth took part in the foundation of the Salon d’Art et Jeunesse in Crest. The Jewish Museum of Prague (Gallery Robert Guttmann) organized a great exhibition of his work in 2008.
Hella Guth died in 1992.

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