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Eva Fuka was born in Prague, Czech Republic on 5 May, 1927. She was a Czechoslovakian actress and singer who was active in the 1950s and 1960s. She was best known for her roles in the films The Cremator (1969) and The Shop on Main Street (1965). Fuka began her career as a singer in the 1950s, performing in cabarets and on the radio. She made her film debut in the 1954 film The White Dove. She went on to appear in several other films, including The Shop on Main Street (1965), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Fuka was married to actor and director Jiří Menzel from 1962 until their divorce in 1972. She retired from acting in the 1970s and died in Prague in 2011 at the age of 84. At the time of her death, Fuka had an estimated net worth of $1 million. She earned her wealth through her acting and singing career.

Popular As Eva Podešvová
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Age 88 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 5 May 1927
Birthday 5 May
Birthplace Prague, Czech Republic
Date of death (2015-11-25)
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Nationality Czech Republic

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Who Is Eva Fuka's Husband?

Her husband is Vladimir Fuka (m. 1950-1977) David H. Engle (m. 1986)

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Eva Fuka Net Worth

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1967

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

1963

In 1963 she published a monograph, an important step in her work as both photographer and woman artist, because photography was still struggling to be recognized in the world of art at the beginning of the sixties. A second monograph was published in 2007, by Torst, after Fuka had two big exhibitions, in 1996 and 2007.

1942

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 Vladimír Fuka in 1950, and gave birth to her only child, Ivana, in 1951.

1939

Fuka's artwork is characterized by surreal and melancholic effects, which she achieved by using her environment to create unreal settings with a dreamlike atmosphere. She ranks among the founding figures of Czech photography who introduced different approaches to the practice by taking advantage of her surroundings to attain particular effects between lights and shadows. Her work as a photographer started in 1939, when her father gifted her a Leica. Later on, in 1951, she and her husband became friends with dissident intellectuals Jiří Kolář, Jan Hanč, Kamil Lhoták, Jan Rychlík, Zdeněk Urbánek, and Josef Schwarz.

1927

Eva Fuka-Engle (in Czech Eva Fuková, née Eva Podešvová, May 5, 1927 – November 25, 2015) was a Czech American photographer.

Fuka was born on May 5, 1927 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Her father, Frantisek Podesva, was a painter and her mother, Marie, was a writer. Her grandfather was a founder of the daily Czech newspaper Lidové noviny.