Eva Švankmajerová

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Eva Švankmajerová (September 25, 1940 – October 20, 2005) was a Czech surrealist artist. She was born Eva Dvořáková. A native of the Czech town of Kostelec nad Černými lesy, she moved to Prague in 1958 to study at the Prague School of Interior Design and later the Academy of Performing Arts (Theater Department). From 1970, she was an active member of the Czech and Slovak Surrealist Group. She was a painter and ceramicist, and her poetry and prose regularly appeared in the journal Analogon. Most recently, her work has appeared in English in Surrealist Women: an International Anthology (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998) and Baradla Cave (Twisted Spoon Press, 2001). Švankmajerová was married to the Surrealist filmmaker Jan Švankmajer, with whom she collaborated on such films as Alice, Faust, and Conspirators of Pleasure. They had two children, Veronika and Václav, and lived in Prague until her death in 2005.

Filmography

1964 – The Last Trick (orig. Poslední trik pana Schwarcewalldea a pana Edgara) – production assistant, director: Jan Švankmajer
1967 – The Garden (org. Zahrada) – costume designer, director: Jan Švankmajer
1971 – Jsouc na řece mlynář jeden – designer, director: J. Brdečka
1976 – Laterna magika: Ztracená pohádka – designer, director: Jaromil Jireš
1978 – The Ninth Hearth (orig. Deváté srdce) – visual effects, director: Juraj Herz
1983 – The Pit, the Pendulum and Hope (orig. Kyvadlo, jáma a naděje) – designer, director: Jan Švankmajer
1986 – Jost Burgi – Demystifikace času a prostoru – animator, director: M. Havas
1987 – Laterna magika: Odysseus – animator, director: E. Schorm
1987 – Alice (orig. Něco z Alenky) – designer, director: Jan Švankmajer
1994 – Lesson Faust (orig. Lekce Faust) – designer, director: Jan Švankmajer
1996 – Conspirators of Pleasure (orig. Spiklenci slasti) – designer, director: Jan Švankmajer
2000 – Little Otík (orig. Otesánek) – designer, director: Jan Švankmajer
2005 – Šílení – designer, director: Jan Švankmajer

Baradla Cave (Jeskyně Baradla) (1995, Edice Analogon) – Original Czech edition
Baradla Cave (2001, Twisted Spoon Press: ISBN 978-80-902171-7-1) – English translation
Anima Animus Animation (1998, Slovart Publishers/Arbor Vitae) – Text in English