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Flag designs of the artist Jaroslav Jares (1919), found by A. Brozek
in archives of the Jares family. There is no text with the original drawings
so it is not known whether all the proposals were meant for the national
flag or for other types of flags. All proposals use the pan-slavic colors
(blue, white and red). The black triangle with a red chalice or sun may
refer to the Hussite movement (XVth century) named after the reformist
Jan Hus, whose flags were thought to contain these colours and devices.
I have numbered them <cz!jj1.gif> to <cz!jj12.gif> There is no
<cz!jj4.gif> in the series because this proposal matches exactly the
Czechoslovak national flag, Displaying this proposal in exhibitions
was the source of an urban legend according to which Jares created the
national flag by winning a flag contest in 1920. Jares can probably be
credited with the idea of the triangle at the hoist (in one of his earlier
proposal from November 1918) but could not have influenced the Arms Committee
in 1919-1920 in the definitive choice of the national flag.
Ivan Sache, 14 Feb 2000
The chalice was/is a major symbol of the Hussite reformers. One of their
chief grievances against the Roman Catholic Church was its insistence that
the laity could receive only bread in the Eucharist, the wine being reserved
to the clergy. The Hussites or Utraquists (from the Latin word for "both")
demanded that communion be given in both species - hence their use of the
wine chalice as a symbol of the movement. The chalice is carved on the
front of at least one of the main Hussite (or maybe formerly Hussite) churches
in Prague. Using the chalice as a symbol of Czechoslovakia might have been
anathema to Slovak Catholics of the 1920s, many of whom considered Bohemian
and Moravian Catholics to be at least tainted by the heresy of the Hussites.
Joseph McMillan, 14 Feb 2000
Today, a burning chalice is used by the (Boston-based) Unitarian Universalist
Association and by Unitarians and Universalists elsewhere too. It appears
that the UUA uses the burning chalice in a flag.
Ole Andersen, 14 Feb 2000
image by Ivan Sache, 14 Feb 2000
image by Ivan Sache, 14 Feb 2000
image by Ivan Sache, 14 Feb 2000
image by Ivan Sache, 14 Feb 2000
image by Ivan Sache, 14 Feb 2000
image by Ivan Sache, 14 Feb 2000
image by Ivan Sache, 14 Feb 2000
image by Ivan Sache, 14 Feb 2000
image by Ivan Sache, 14 Feb 2000
image by Ivan Sache, 14 Feb 2000
I visited Czeck Army Museum and took several photos of old flags and
proposed flags: here are five proposals by J.Jarese (1919). (Probably the
same as Jaroslav Jares).
Nozomi Kariyasu, 24 Jul 2009
image by Eugene Ipavec, 10 Aug 2009
image by Eugene Ipavec, 10 Aug 2009
image by Eugene Ipavec, 10 Aug 2009
image by Eugene Ipavec, 10 Aug 2009
This one contains a charge I can't identify; something like an anchor
(?).
Eugene Ipavec, 10 Aug 2009