Documents about the Czech artist T.F. Simon

Tavik FrantiŠek Šimon
(1877-1942)

Photos, Postcards, Letters, Newspapers

PHOTOS

T. F. Šimon (in the middle), Max(imilian) Svabinsky (2nd row, to the right) and Richard Lauda (left of TFS),
together with a group (probably students from the Art-academy in Prague). Around 1900.

Young portrait of T.F. Šimon

T.F. Šimon and his father Antonin Šimon (Rovensko 1835 - Mseno 1912)

T.F. Šimon (1894) in a hat.

Dvorak-Iljev-Csordak-Kalvoda-Plaske-Minarik-Lebeda(sitting)-Kavan-Chrestov- (ca. 1894).
T.F. Šimon is not within this group, but it shows important Czech artists like Dvorak, Kalvoda, Lebeda and Kavan.

Hugo Boettinger (pseudonim Dr. Desiderius),
Antonin Ruzicka, T.F. Šimon

Hugo Boettinger, T.F. Šimon
and Antonin Ruzicka,

T.F. Šimon . Ca. 1900

T.F. Šimon in his atelier in Paris with Hugo Boettinger and Bohumil Kafka. 1905

Luxembourg Garden in Paris
Hugo Boettinger (left)

Luxembourg Garden in Paris
T.F. Šimon (left)

Hugo Boettinger (right)

Luxembourg Garden in Paris
T.F. Šimon , ?, and Hugo Boettinger

Richard Lauda, Hugo Boettinger and TFS.
In Šimon 's atelier in Paris.

TFS and his brother Robert.
(Czech photographer and journalist).

Jan Stenc, Preissler, Spaniel
On the tower of Notre-Dame/Paris

Vilma Šimon , Eva & Roza, Hugo Boettinger. Circa 1912

T.F. Šimon in his house in Paris.
On the wall a small painting,
showing Court du Dragon.

Vilma & TFS. Circa 1912

T.F S. In the house in Paris

Vilma looking at photographs

Vilma Šimon facing the mirror

T.F.S. in the atelier

Three Czech painters:
Jan Honsa, TFS, Richard Lauda

Rue Humboldt 25, Paris
Šimon 's family house and atelier.

T.F. Šimon . Circa 1912

T.F. Šimon with Hugo Boettinger and Richard Lauda. Circa 1912

TFS, Hugo Boettinger and Richard Lauda. Ca. 1912
In Šimon 's atelier, Paris.

Vilma Šimon and daughter Eva.
Tangier, 1913

Vilma and Eva.
Tangier, 1913.

Richard Lauda, T.F.Šimon , Hugo Boettinger, Eva & Vilma Šimon &
the painter Jan Honsa. Circa 1913

The Czech painter Jan Honsa

TFS and Ruzena Kratina. Ruzena Kratina was a sister of Vilma Šimon , mother of Lydia Kratina who married Koloman Sokol (*1902 Liptovský Mikuláš; † 2003 Tucson, USA).
On board of a ship during the Šimon 's Worldtravel.

T.F. Šimon and the Japanese female artist Kato Guikia.
Kamakura, near Yokohama. In front of the Kamakura Daibutsu, 13th century bronze statue of Amida Buddha.

Japan. Invitation to an exhibition.

TFS in Japan

Cyril Bouda, Mario Stretti (son of Jaromir Stretti-Zamponi), Ivan Šimon (son of TFS, 1914-2009), T F Šimon , Eva Šimon (daughter of TFS) and Pavel Šimon (artist, son of TFS). Circa 1930.

Lydia Kratina, student of T F Šimon , born in USA (1908), she was a niece of Vilma Šimon and married (1933) the Slovak painter and graphic artist Koloman Sokol (*1902 Liptovský Mikuláš; † 2003 Tucson, USA). T.F. Šimon , Cyril Bouda (behind TFS) and Koloman Sokol. Ca. 1932.

Victor Stretti, Frantisek Kobliha and T.F.Šimon . 1935

Hybal?, T. F. Šimon , Antonin Mayer, Frantisek Kobliha.

Left: Dr. K.Tondl, Jan Konupek, Victor Stretti, T.F. Šimon , Method Kalab, Arthur Novak. Hollar Exhibition in Obecni Dum in Prague, 1933.

Burghardt, T.F. Šimon, Jaromir Stretti-Zamponi?

Antonin Mayer, Victor Stretti, Kobliha and T.F.Šimon . 1935

The Czech artists Frantisek Kobliha, Vojtech Preissig and Antonin Mayer.
(V. Preissig * 1873 Teplice/ Bohemia + Dachau 1944).

Victor Stretti, T.F.Šimon , ? ,
Arthur Novak, and ?
In the artist's house in Bubenec
On the background Šimon 's oilpaintings
Ca. 1938

T.F. Šimon at work in his house in Bubenec/Prague. (1932)

T.F. Šimon in Normandy

Beach of Fécamp in Normandy

T.F. Šimon on a market square making a sketch.

1936

Photo portrait of Robert Šimon (brother of TFS).
Czech photographer and journalist.

T.F. Šimon and the artist Kuba

T. F. Šimon . Circa 1940
On the background artworks of different artists

T. F. Šimon . Circa 1940

POSTCARDS

Postcard written by FS(imon). Le Treport (1904)

Postcard written by FS(imon) from Paris

Postcard sent to Hugo Boettinger
Kral. Vinohrady(Prague), 01.05.1904.
'Karikatura'
Author: Artuš Scheiner
Jan Stenc (left), Stanislav Sucharda, Artuš Scheiner, Jan Kotera, & Vladimir Zupansky.

Signatures a.o. by:
A.Böklin, Kafka, Rudolf Kepl, B.Kotera, R.Lauda,
Preissler, F.Šimon , J.Stenc, Franz Stück, Svabinsky,

Postcard from Ault-Onival, 28-07-1904
Coast of Normandy (France)
Sent to Hugo Boettinger.

Postcard from Ault-Onival
Address: Rue de la Peche No. 20

Postcard. Coast of Ault-Onival

Postcard. Beach of Onival

London 1908

Postcard from T.F.Šimon sent to Hugo Boettinger.

Postcard (1909) sent to Hugo Boettinger from Scheveningen (Holland).It is a beautiful country, just made for painters, will send you the print right away. All others that I had with me were taken in commission by Mr. Richter from Dresden.

(Right) Postcard (1912) sent to Hugo Boettinger. The photo shows 'Bagijnenhofje" in Amsterdam.

Dear Hugo, brother Robert wrote to me that you came to the grave of my old father, which shows your true kindness of friendship. Thank you my friend for your condolence.
I will stay in Amsterdam only a few days. I will travel further to Utrecht. I am restless and it is lonely here.

Postcard from TFS to his young son Pavel Šimon

Postcard from TFS to his young son Pavel Šimon . 1927.

LETTERS & ESSAYS

A letter from TFS to Vilma
London, 1905

A letter from the artist
Frantisek Kupka to T F Šimon,

Letter from the Victoria & Albert Museum, 1910.

Membership of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers- and Engravers. London, 1910.

Letter from TFS to his son Ivan
Januar 14, 1927

Letter from TFS to his son Ivan
Mai 3rd, 1927

Šimon 's scheme of his worldtour. 1
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Šimon 's scheme of his worldtour. 2
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Telegram from Tokyo to Prague.
December 13th, 1926.
Arrival in the port of Yokohama at 9 o'clock.
From there he went to Tokyo.

On the left:
A page in the notebook of T. F. Šimon .
He travelled to Kyoto on Monday 27th, 1926.

Letter from Mr.Okada (Tokyo), collector of art, to Vilma Šimon .
Šimon noted Mr.Akada in his notebook on saterday 1st, 1927.

Letter from the NY Public Library, 1928

Correspondence with Sagot
Paris, 1906-1936

'From the live of
Milan Štefanik in Paris'
Essay by T.F. Šimon

Novak 596.
SELF PORTRAIT.
Etching – 155x115mm.
Edition of 100 prints.
For an album with portrait of artists.
Hollar, 1932.

T.F. Šimon and Paul Gauguin,
Essay by T.F. Šimon, 1937

NEWSPAPERS
& DIVERSE

Šimon 's review in Volné Smêry on the
Whistler exhibition in London.1905.

Article on the exhibition in New York. Jan 7th, 1911.

Comment by the curator of Public Library NW

Invitation to the exhibition at the Public Library in New York. A.o. works of art by Whistler & T.F. Šimon (F.T. Šimon ). Winter & Spring 1911.

An American Newspaper. Around 1912.

The studio in Prague of T. François Šimon reveals the development of an artist of international repute from a colorist and impressionist to a decorative painter within twenty years. One of the best known pictures "Bruges in Snow" hangs in the Luxembourg, in Paris.
To the average man in the street who pauses to consider art, Šimon is known to him as an etcher. In the smaller circle of artists and artcritics, Šimon is painter first and etcher second. And it is as painter Šimon would prefer history should record on him. He is today one of the leading Czech painters and is probably, without exaggeration, the master of the decorative school in his country.
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Legitimace Frantisek Šimon
1915

Legitimace, 1924

Article by Arthur Novak,
Prager Presse 1927

Who can read the text
of this newspaper-article?
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Three drawings published in
Newspaper Svetozor. Circa 1927.

Article in a Polish newspaper

ABOUT CZECH ARTISTS.
T.F.ŜIMON, AN OUTSTANDING CZECH ARTIST-PAINTER AND GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATOR
WRITTEN BY JOZEF ZDENEK SVOBODA ‘ILLUSTRATED POLAND’ #14 [1930].

Today I would like to discuss the creativity of the great Czech painter Prof. T.F. Šimon MORE

Salon June 10, 1937
Part 1

Salon June 10, 1937
Part 2

Gros, Mai 18, 1937

Newspaper-article (English)
Central European Observer.
August 6, 1937

Newspaper-articles
Zeleznice/Eisenstadtel 1942

Art-Society Hollar
Prague December 21, 1942

Art-Society Hollar, 1943

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