Ludvík Kuba
Czech landscape painter, musician and writer (b. 16 April 1863 [N.S.] in Poděbrady; d. 30 November 1956 in Prague).
In his youth Kuba showed a talent for music and drawing, and was well schooled in the arts. He studied at the Prague Organ School (1877–79), Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (1891–1893), the Académie Julian in Paris (1893–1895), and at the school of Anton Ažbe in Munich (1896–1904). During the 1880s he also taught as a village schoolmaster. He then devoted his life to painting and folk traditions, becoming a collector of folksongs, for which he received an honorary doctorate from Prague University in 1936, and was declared a National Artist in 1945.
Correspondence with Tchaikovsky
3 letters from Tchaikovsky to Ludvík Kuba have survived, dating from 1888 to 1892:
- Letter 3603 – 27 June/9 July 1888, from Frolovskoye
- Letter 3730 – 26 November/8 December 1888, from Vienna
- Letter 4677 – 2/14 May 1892, from Saint Petersburg
2 letters from Kuba to Tchaikovsky, dating from 1888, are preserved in the Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve at Klin (a4, Nos. 2008–2009).
Bibliography
- Petr Iljič Čajkovskij a Ludvík Kuba (1953)
- Письма П. И. Чайковского к Людвику Кубе (1955)
- Из историй русско-чешских связей (1956)
