Jožka Baruch: Toy Rooster brown - detail of advertisement

Licensed replica: Jožka Baruch: Toy Rooster brown

Czechoslovakia 1920s, shop@modernista.cz

The carved rooster clearly reflects Baruch's wide range of artistic imagination, which led him to create small decorative objects and toys. Folk toys and motifs became an important inspiration. They combined geometric carved ornament or bright polychromy with small-scale decoration. All of this was the Czechoslovakian answer to the fashion for polychrome rusticated artefacts of the international Art Deco movement in the 1920s.

Jožka Baruch (1892 - 1966)

Academic painter Jožka Baruch was born on 28 July 1892 in Krásno nad Bečvou. He graduated from the State Vocational School for Woodworking in Valašské Meziříčí as a figure and ornamental carver.