We have discovered a contemporary abstract artist from Czech Republic living on the southern Coast of England, expressing life, love and nature. We’d like to introduce you to Radka Bartošíková… Radka was born in a small historical town of Moravia called Třebíč, in the Czech Republic. Growing up, she was interested in everything from singing...
The National Theater (Czech: Národní divadlo) is one of the most significant cultural monuments in the Czech Republic. Its stage has seen performances by world-renowned artists and its balconies have hosted countless famous guests and figures. To this day it remains a symbol of national identity and pride. If you have ever been inside the...
František Dvořák, born Bruner, also known as Franz Dvorak or Franz Bruner was a Czech painter. He was born on November 14, 1862 and died on June 7, 1927. He was the son of a tailor named Václav Bruner. He later changed his name to “Dvořák”, possibly for patriotic reasons. He displayed artistic talent from...
Alex Kveton is a sculptor whose distinct works combine timeless technique and disciplined curves to convey ideas and symbols. He has a very contemporary and unique style, through which he is able to use expressive shapes in order to symbolize content in his art. And yet his sculptures are also able to stand on their...
Josef Paleček has won awards in Austria, Germany, France, and received honorary mention multiple times in the competitions for The Most Beautiful Book of the Year. His illustrations have caught the eyes and touched the hearts of people all over the world and one does not have to look far to see why. His illustrations...
Today we slip into the magical world of Czech painter, Reon Argondian. Though he was born in Prague with a different name, Jan Zahradník, and was given a Czech name that translates to gardener by birth, the powers that be wanted to suppress the garden of his mind. Born on the 21st of July 1948, he...
Vladimir Ambroz is a name often associated with graphic design, but Ambroz is also a photographer and performance artist. Vladimír Ambroz’s virtually unknown activities in the field of performance art, interventions in the public space and actions related to staged photography lasted only a few years. In the late 1970s, he was part of the Brno...
Metalmorphosis is a mirrored sculpture by the controversial Czech artist David Černý. It is similar to his monumental eleven-meter-tall sculpture located in the Quadrio shopping center in the Prague 1 district of Prague, Czech Republic, known as either Head of Franz Kafka or Statue of Kafka. Metalmorphosis, however, is located across the ocean from Prague...
Founded by Kašpar Maria Šternberg in 1818, the “National Gallery” has ten locations around the city of Prague. Each one features a different style/period of art, and combined, The National Gallery’s collection reaches almost 14 million items all together. Today we will be discussing the Trade Fair Palace which was originally built in 1925 as a place...
In 1902, a Czech artist from the town of Králův Dvůr traveled to Italy in order to help the famous Norwegian painter, Edvard Munch, design posters for the Prague exhibition of 1905. His name was Jan Preisler. At a young age, Preisler began attracting attention at school for his drawings. He showed a great talent...
The Slav Epic is a series of twenty magnificent artworks by the Czech Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha. The monumental artworks which comprise the series depict the history and mythology of the Slavic civilization and people. Mucha first formed the idea for the Slav Epic when he was working on the interior deign of the...
Adolf Born was an illustrator, caricaturist, painter, and filmmaker from the Czech Republic. He was born in the Czech town of České Velenice, which is located on the border of South Bohemia and Austria, in June of 1930. In 1935, he moved to Prague with his family where he attended the School of Applied Arts...
Yuri Shevchuk is a Ukrainian painter whose paintings of Prague capture the vibrancy and life of the famous Czech capital. Shevchuk was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1961 and attended the Kiev Art School and the prestigious Kiev Architectural Academy. He has lived in Prague since 1993 and the city has become the subject of...
Today we are looking at Czech bronze plaques from the first half of the 20th Century featuring Bohemian, Moravian and Slovak (now known as Czech) people. They are all quite rare, coming from the late 1800s and early 1900s. Searching far and wide, I could not locate any others, making them one-of-a-kind treasures, many created...
We were recently on Instagram looking at amazing pictures of The Czech Republic when we stumbled upon Vítězslava Hoffmann, Vítězslava is a Czech language teacher living and teaching in Poland with the most awesome pictures to help you learn Czech! Vítězslava is always posting new pictures of her drawings and illustrations she makes to hep...
Rudolf Kremlička (June 19, 1886 – June 3, 1932) was a Czech painter who belongs to the great personalities of Czech modern painting of the 20th century. He is most known for his full color paintings of women and the countryside but today we’re looking at a few of the simple line drawings which are...
