World famous painter, graphic artist and illustrator, one of the foremost figures of modern abstract painting. His work is based on the spiritual unity of humans, the world and matter. Because of his love for music, he contributed to the visual arts with a new movement – Orphism.
Prominent painter, illustrator, caricaturist, scenographer and writer. One of the most original and popular modern Czech fine artists.
Prominent Czech painter, graphic artist, designer and university teacher, author of a thousand works of art and applied graphics. He was artistically versatile and diverse.
Czech painter, graphic artist, illustrator and writer, one of the most original Czech painters of the 20th century and a pioneer of animated film.
The oldest and probably the most famous still extant Czech artistic association. It has a long history and some of the most distinguished Czech artists have been its members.
Prominent Czech painter and one of the most important and original representatives of modern Czech art of the second half of the 20th century. His spiritual works influenced younger generations of Czech artists.
The most important Czech sculptor of the 19th century and one of the leading figures of the generation of the National Theatre. He is regarded as the founder of Czech modern sculpture and the foremost representative of monumental realism.
Artistic group of the late 20th century whose work was based on the tradition of the interwar artistic group Tvrdošíjní (The Stubborn Ones) and became the first Czech group of fines artists outside the official regime organisation after 1968.
A loose group of artists who tended towards cosmopolitanism, created as a reaction to European modernist art and in spite of its short existence it foreshadowed the radical arrival of a new generation of artists.
Specific Czech avant-garde movement founded by theoretician of modern art Karel Teige and poet Vítězslav Nezval, who sought to create a new way of understanding the world.
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator and university teacher, one of the founders of Czech Modernism. His work contributed to the creation of a new, highly demanding artistic environment.
A distinguished representative of Czech fine arts in the first half of the 20th century. He was a graphic artist, typographer, painter, illustrator, photographer and was also a participant in the anti-Austrian and anti-Nazi struggle.
Art group consisting of fine artists and writers influenced by Surrealism, active in the 1940s.
Prominent illustrator, drawer, editor, journalist, caricaturist and a very talented writer with a distinct style. Author of stories of Ferdinand the Ant and Pytlík the Bug.
A group of young Czech artists, which during its short existence between 1939 and 1941 reacted to the beginning of war.
Prominent painter, landscapist, illustrator and fine arts pedagogue, regarded as one of the most talented academics at the turn of the century. He belonged to the so-called generation of the National Theatre.
Prominent Czech painter, graphic artist, illustrator and teacher. He contributed to Czech painting by introducing a new perspective and enriching it with his unique style based on his experiences from abroad and studying old masters on the one hand and modern trends of Symbolism and Art Nouveau on the other.
A cycle of large-format paintings, one of the unique art works in the Czech Republic, which was included in the project [Seven] Wonders of Czechia in the category “Art and Culture” (2010).
Czech fine artist, book illustrator, exceptional animator, screenwriter and director of animated films who primarily focused on working for children and created more than 400 fairy-tale films, such as the television bedtime stories about Rákosníček.
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