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Franz Cizek (12 June 1865 – 17 December 1946) was an Austrian genre and portrait painter, who was best known as a teacher and reformer of art education. He began the Child Art Movement in Vienna, opening the Juvenile Art Class in 1897. ==Career== In 1885, Cizek entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He was a student of the German painters Franz Rumpler, Josef Mathias von Trenkwald, and Siegmund l’Allemand.〔(Franz Cizek Short Biography )〕 While a student, he lived with a family and the children visited him in his room, where he allowed them to use his art supplies and encouraged them to express themselves. He was impressed by their creativity, and showed the work to fellow artists at the university, who encouraged him to start an art school for children. The Juvenile Art Classes were free of charge to children of Vienna. The children were interviewed and selected by Cizek. His teaching method had limited structure, and imagination and free expression were encouraged.〔(Franz Cizek: Liberating the Child Artist )〕 In 1904, he was appointed director of the Department of Experimentation and Research at the Vienna School of Applied Arts. Some of his students became teaching assistants for the children's art classes. One assistant was Erika Giovanna Klien, who later emigrated to the United States and employed Cizek’s teaching methods at Stuyvesant High School and the Dalton School.〔 Another artist, Emmy Lichtwitz Krasso, was an assistant from 1933 to 1935, and later went to India where she started a children's art movement in the Mumbai schools.〔(Portrait of an Artist )〕 In November 1920, the children's art was exhibited at the British Institute for Industrial Art in Kingsbridge, England, and then toured the country.〔(Inventing Child Art )〕 In 1921 Francesca Wilson, a Birmingham teacher, exhibited the child art in London. This exhibition and those for the Save the Children Fund raised interest in the Child Art Movement.〔(Franz Cizek Collection, Yorkshire Sculpture Park )〕 They are also early examples of featuring art in raising funds and awareness for humanitarian causes. Among those Cizek influenced was Johannes Itten, the Swiss painter and Bauhaus leader.〔(About Bauhaus )〕 Arthur Lismer, a Canadian artist, was also inspired by Cizek and John Dewey to found a Children's Art Centre at the Art Gallery of Toronto in 1933, and at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 1946. Cizec's life was described by Dr. Wilhelm Viola, his former student who became a lecturer at the Royal Drawing Society.〔Kelly, Donna Darling. ''Uncovering the History of Children's Drawing and Art''. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004:84.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Franz Cižek」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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