Emil Filla

Was a leading Czech painter but he also worked as a sculptor, art connoisseur and collector, theoretician, editor, organizer and diplomat. In the first period of his work he was influenced mainly by the work of the painter Edvard Munch. Filla became a member of the Osma group, with whom he exhibited in 1907 and 1908. In 1910, elements of cubism began to appear in his work for the first time, first as cuboexpressionism, but gradually he also created explicitly cubist works, strongly influenced by the cubist paintings of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.