2024-06-11 11:46:28
Tomáš Baťa entered historical past because the founding father of a shoe empire that far outgrew the borders of Czechoslovakia and nonetheless operates at the moment. Nonetheless, he didn’t reside to see the best enlargement of the corporate based mostly in Zlín, as a result of he died on July 12, 1932 in a aircraft crash in Otrokovice, whereas he was making ready for a enterprise journey to Zurich.
What the First Republic Zlín regarded like within the days when Tomáš Bať charmed the world from there are proven by distinctive coloured images from the exhibition It does not exist – it does not exist! It was ready by Gabriela Končitíková from the Tomáš Bata Basis and Vladimír Parízek, who took cost of coloring the previous black and white images.
The exhibition Cannot – does not exist! it was initially proven in one among Zlín’s cafes, however is now solely out there on-line. It was ready by the Tomáš Bata Basis in cooperation with the Zlín State District Archive.
Along with the chance to view Bata’s world in shade, the authors additionally targeted on presenting the concepts on which Tomáš Bata’s success was based mostly. They create them nearer to the pictures within the accompanying textual content. They initially existed solely in a black and white model, however Vladimír Parízek took cost of coloring them. The coloring of the pictures was preceded by analysis, in order that the colours corresponded to the fact of the time as realistically as doable.
Comparability of unique and coloured pictures on the web site of the exhibition Cannot – does not exist! | Photograph: Colorization of images: Vladimír Parízek / State District Archive Zlín / Tomáš Bata Basis