It's him! The one called Toyen

It's him! - Three words that may have given rise to the artistic name of the surrealist painter Toyen. A name as mysterious as she was. It's like she's still covering her tracks. Others gave their testimonies about her. The painter Jindřich Štyrský, with whom she formed a lifelong artistic duo. The Jewish poet Jindřich Heisler, whom she hid in her Žižkov apartment until the end of the war because he refused to join the transport. Her friends from Devětsil Vítězslav Nezval, Jaroslav Seifert and Karel Teige. Or the French surrealists, when in r. In 1947 she went into exile in Paris. Thanks to these testimonies, but also based on research in archives in the Czech Republic and France, Milena Štráfeldová wrote a fictionalized biography of her. The story of Marie Čermínová, a native of Prague's Smíchov district, whom André Breton himself ranked among the ten most important artists of the 20th century.