Eva Fuka-Engle

Eva Fuka-Engle (May 5, 1927 – November 25, 2015) was an American photographer. She was born in 1927 in Prague,Czechoslovakia.

In 1942, she attended the State School of Graphic Arts in Prague under Professor Rudolf Skopec, and later studied at the Academy of Visual Arts, from 1945 to 1950. She married fellow-artist Vladimir Fuka in 1950, and gave birth to her only child, Ivana, in 1951.

A member of a group of dissident intellectuals (including Jiří Kolář, Jan Hanč, Kamil Lhoták, Jan Rychlík, Zdeněk Urbánek, and Josef Schwarz), she was known for her melancholic works and surreal effects.

In 1967 she defected with her family to the United States. Her first husband succumbed to diabetes in 1977, and Fuka remarried to David H Engle in 1986. At the time her death Fuka was retired, and split her time between New York City, Prague, Paris and the French Alps where she spent her summers.

*******

• 5/5/1927 born in Prague, Czechoslovakia

• 1942 studies at the State School of Graphic Arts in Prague under professor Rudolf Skopec
• studies photography at the studio of Miro Bernat
• 1945-50 studies at the Academy of Visual Arts under professor Vlastimil Rada
• 1948 studies at the Academy of Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria

• 1950 marries Vladimír Fuka
• 1951 birth of her daughter Ivana

• Eva Fuka abandons painting to concentrate exclusively on photography

• Eva and her husband Vladimír Fuka meet regularly with a group of intellectuals:
Jirí Kolár, Jan Hanc, Kamil Lhoták, Jan Rychlík, Zdenek Urbánek and Josef Schwarz

• exchanges her Leica for a Rolleiflex

• 1955 member of publicity group Propagacní tvorba
• 1957 becomes a member of the Union of Visual Artists, the Artists’ Society Umelecká beseda,
and the jury of the Czechoslovak Union of Visual Artists
• 1963 Eva Fuka’s monograph is published by Odeon Publishing

• 1964 first trip to the United States
• 1966 second trip to the USA

http://www.eva-fuka.com/