Boje o smysl modernı ́ho umeˇnı ́(Fights for the Sense of the
Modern Art, edition was destroyed except a few galley-
proofs), Prague, 1969
Exhibitions
(Note: Karel Tiege had no photo-collage exhibitions during
his lifetime.)
1966 KarelTeige,Surrealistke ́kola ́zˇ e; (Surrealist Photo-col-
lages, selection of 91 photo-assemblies from the years 1935–
1951), gallery Vincenc Krama ́rˇ, Prague, Czechoslovakia
1966 Karel Teige Photocollages 1935–1951; Museum Folk-
wang, Essen, Germany
1975 The 20’s in Eastern Europe; Cologne, Germany
1985 The Photographic Nude; Munich, Germany
1988 Czech Modernism; Houston, Texas
1994 Karel Teige 1900–1951; Galerie Hlavnı ́ho Meˇsta Prahy
(The gallery of the capital Prague), Prague, Czech Republic
1996 Cˇesky ́surrealismus 1929–1935; (Czech Surrealismus
1929–1935), Prague, Czech Republic
Further Readings
Chlumsky, Milan. ‘‘Photography for a New human Being.’’
InFotogeschichteno. 32, Jonas Publishing House, Ger-
many, 1989: 49–70.
Effenberger Vratislav.Realita a poezie(Reality and Poetry).
Ed. Mlada ́Fronta. Prague: 1966.
Primus, Zdeneˇk.Czech avant-garde 1922–1940. Hamburg:
1990.
Sˇtyrsky ́ , Jindrˇich.Emilie comes in the dream to me. Frank-
furt/M: New Criticism, 1994.
Sˇtyrsky ́ , Jindrˇich.Emilie comes in the dream to me. New
York: Ubu Gallery, 1997.
Teige, Karel.Arte e idologia 1922–1933. Torino: Edition
Einaudi, 1982.
Teige, Karel.L’Enfant Terrible oftheCzech Modernist Avant-
Garde 1900–1951. Edited by Eric Dluhosch and Rostislav
Svacha. Intro. by Kenneth Frampton. Cambridge: 1999.
Teige, Karel. Surrealisticke ́ kola ́zˇ e (Surrealist Collages,
1935–1951). Edition Detail. Prague: 1994.EDMUND TESKE
American
Edmund Teske was a romantic who perceived,
interpreted, and lived life through emotion and
intuition. Although he valued the intellect, he
believed that the intellect interfered with direct
experience and sensation. In the romantic tradi-
tion, he described his purpose in life as ‘‘being
and becoming on earth through my art.’’ Although
well recognized in the realm of photography, Teske
had an eclectic approach to the arts and used any
means to communicate his ideas.
Teske was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 7,
1911, and was the eldest of three children in a Ger-
man Lutheran family who had emigrated from
Poland. The father was a self-employed business-
man. The mother was a devout Lutheran. However,
it was his elementary school teacher, Mabel A.
Morehouse, who was especially influential by pro-
claiming that art, music, and painting were natural
acts. She evoked the creative spirit in young Teske
and encouraged his interest in photography. While
growing up in Chicago, Teske attended classes in
drawing and painting at the Huttle Art Studio and
assisted the portrait photographer Ferdinand De
Gelder, but was essentially a self-taught photogra-
pher. He took saxophone lessons and played piano,
becoming a prote ́ge ́of the concert pianist Ida Lust-
garten. Teske was also a resident in theatre at Jane
Adams Hull House. This early multidisciplinary
introduction to the arts was reflected in his later
interdisciplinary approach.
Teske’s initial inspiration in photography came
from the vision of Edward Weston and the writings
of Ansel Adams. He also became familiar with the
photographs of La ́szlo ́ Moholy-Nagy, Gyorgy
Kepes, Man Ray, and the paintings of Salvador
Dali. However, much of his photographic educa-
tion was informal and derived from readingVanity
FairandVoguemagazines.
Throughout his life Teske supported himself in
commercial, studio, and industrial photography
and by teaching photography. During the 1930s, he
taught at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin, Spring
Green, Wisconsin, the Institute of Design (New Bau-
haus) in Chicago, and the Federal Arts Project. After
moving to Los Angeles in 1943, Teske taught at
Chouinard Art Institute, the University of California
at Los Angeles (at the invitation of Robert Hei-
necken, an admirer who pursued some of the same
techniques that Teske pioneered), California State
University at Los Angeles, and Immaculate Heart
College, Los Angeles. Although he had dreams of
working as a cinematographer or an actor in Holly-TEIGE, KAREL