Czech Press Photo | Prague Grant 2017

Picture description: Vladimír Kopecký (1931) – Vladimír Kopecký, the painter and glass-maker is a renowned creator of sculptures made of cut plate glass. At the age of 26, he was awarded the gold medal at Expo 58 in Brussels and since then has been collecting awards from all over the world till these days. In spite of that, he has had doubts about his art works all the time. In his works, pure geometry meets a stormy expressive abstraction. (pictured in May 2017)

Series description: Old masters – They were born between World Wars I and II, often in poor families. They all loved painting or drawing when they were children. When they later decided what career to follow they chose a similar field – art. And despite their age they stuck to it until today. They experienced their creative peak in the 1960s and 1970s. However, due to the communist regime, many of them were not allowed to create art and exhibit publicly. Some of them are famous both at home and abroad while others tend to work “behind the scenes”. The project of IDNES.cz server presents portraits of artists related to Prague.

Author: Jiří Benák

Picture description: Alena Kučerová (1935) – The sculptress Alena Kučerová became world-renowned through her unique technique of perforated metal sheet printing. She has discovered it mainly due to the poverty in the 1960´s. Till 1996 she had been creating her works of art in Řásnovka, in Prague. You can find her works of art in the most renowned public collections all over the world (such as MoMA in New York, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam or the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris). (photographed in January 2016)

Series description: Old masters – They were born between World Wars I and II, often in poor families. They all loved painting or drawing when they were children. When they later decided what career to follow they chose a similar field – art. And despite their age they stuck to it until today. They experienced their creative peak in the 1960s and 1970s. However, due to the communist regime, many of them were not allowed to create art and exhibit publicly. Some of them are famous both at home and abroad while others tend to work “behind the scenes”. The project of IDNES.cz server presents portraits of artists related to Prague.

Author: Jiří Benák

Picture description: Dimitrij Kadrnožka (1923) – Painter and graphic artist Dmitrij Kadrnožka has been living in Prague-Žižkov since the age of ten. In addition to pictures, he has created lots of film and theatre posters. It may come as a paradox that he is much more famous abroad than in the Czech Republic (photographed in April 2017) (pictured in April 2017)

Series description: Old masters – They were born between World Wars I and II, often in poor families. They all loved painting or drawing when they were children. When they later decided what career to follow they chose a similar field – art. And despite their age they stuck to it until today. They experienced their creative peak in the 1960s and 1970s. However, due to the communist regime, many of them were not allowed to create art and exhibit publicly. Some of them are famous both at home and abroad while others tend to work “behind the scenes”. The project of IDNES.cz server presents portraits of artists related to Prague.

Author: Jiří Benák

Picture description: Václav Cigler (1929) – Václav Cígler, the sculptor, glass-artist and the author of utopian projects of landscape works of art, in the garden of his house in Prague-Ořechovka. He is considered one of the most remarkable personalities of the world glass-making art. In his work, he deals with a person’s search, their relationship both to themselves and to what lies beyond. He also worked as a teacher and designer of jewels and luxury watches for a long time. (pictured in April 2016)

Series description: Old masters – They were born between World Wars I and II, often in poor families. They all loved painting or drawing when they were children. When they later decided what career to follow they chose a similar field – art. And despite their age they stuck to it until today. They experienced their creative peak in the 1960s and 1970s. However, due to the communist regime, many of them were not allowed to create art and exhibit publicly. Some of them are famous both at home and abroad while others tend to work “behind the scenes”. The project of IDNES.cz server presents portraits of artists related to Prague.

Author: Jiří Benák

Picture description: Stanislav Kolíbal (1925) – The sculptor Stanislav Kolíbal was among the banned authors during the “normalization” era. In his work he deals with the abstraction relying on geometrical shapes. Lability and transience are the main subjects of his work. He works with issues of time, duration and extinction. This holder of the Medal of Merit awarded by the Czech president has been living and working in Prague-Dejvice. (pictured in January 2016). (photographed in January 2016)

Series description: Old masters – They were born between World Wars I and II, often in poor families. They all loved painting or drawing when they were children. When they later decided what career to follow they chose a similar field – art. And despite their age they stuck to it until today. They experienced their creative peak in the 1960s and 1970s. However, due to the communist regime, many of them were not allowed to create art and exhibit publicly. Some of them are famous both at home and abroad while others tend to work “behind the scenes”. The project of IDNES.cz server presents portraits of artists related to Prague.

Author: Jiří Benák

Picture description: Jiří Babíček (1930) – Although the sculptor Jiří Babíček is intimately connected with the Ostrava region, he has been living in Prague again since 1972. He, as a member of the Kontrast group influenced by the work of the British artist Henry Moore, created dozens of sculptures intended for public spaces. During the “normalization” era he also worked as a restorer. For example, he restored three statues on Charles Bridge. Pictured in November 2016.

Series description: Old masters – They were born between World Wars I and II, often in poor families. They all loved painting or drawing when they were children. When they later decided what career to follow they chose a similar field – art. And despite their age they stuck to it until today. They experienced their creative peak in the 1960s and 1970s. However, due to the communist regime, many of them were not allowed to create art and exhibit publicly. Some of them are famous both at home and abroad while others tend to work “behind the scenes”. The project of IDNES.cz server presents portraits of artists related to Prague.

Author: Jiří Benák

Picture description: Jan Hendrych (1936) – After the Velvet Revolution, the predominantly figurative sculptor Jan Hendrych worked as a professor in the Prague AVU for the long 25 years. But after 1968, he wasn’t allowed to work as an artist and exhibit. Therefore, he started working as a restorer in order not to abandon his profession altogether. He lives and works in his villa in Ořechovka. (photographed in January 2016)

Series description: Old masters – They were born between World Wars I and II, often in poor families. They all loved painting or drawing when they were children. When they later decided what career to follow they chose a similar field – art. And despite their age they stuck to it until today. They experienced their creative peak in the 1960s and 1970s. However, due to the communist regime, many of them were not allowed to create art and exhibit publicly. Some of them are famous both at home and abroad while others tend to work “behind the scenes”. The project of IDNES.cz server presents portraits of artists related to Prague.

Author: Jiří Benák

Picture description: Daniela Vinopalová (1928-2017) – The academic sculptress Daniela Vinopalová studied AVU in Prague in the early 1950s. However, she quickly abandoned so-called socialist realism, the only acceptable artistic style according to the then dictate. After abandoning this model, she started working on her expressive sculptures without a previous idea how and what to create. Until her death she lived and worked in Prague-Podolí (picture from May 2016)

Series description: Old masters – They were born between World Wars I and II, often in poor families. They all loved painting or drawing when they were children. When they later decided what career to follow they chose a similar field – art. And despite their age they stuck to it until today. They experienced their creative peak in the 1960s and 1970s. However, due to the communist regime, many of them were not allowed to create art and exhibit publicly. Some of them are famous both at home and abroad while others tend to work “behind the scenes”. The project of IDNES.cz server presents portraits of artists related to Prague.

Author: Jiří Benák

Picture description: Karel Franta (1928-2017) – Karel Franta worked primarily as an illustrator of children’s books and had started his visual work upon completing his primary school study. He started working in the printing operation of the Melantrich publishing house. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts, he started to work for Pionýr, a magazine for children; he also cooperated with magazines Mladý svět (he created its logo), Sluníčko, Čtyřlístek and Ohníček. Until his death he lived and worked in Prague-Hanspaulka (pictured in February 2016).

Series description: Old masters – They were born between World Wars I and II, often in poor families. They all loved painting or drawing when they were children. When they later decided what career to follow they chose a similar field – art. And despite their age they stuck to it until today. They experienced their creative peak in the 1960s and 1970s. However, due to the communist regime, many of them were not allowed to create art and exhibit publicly. Some of them are famous both at home and abroad while others tend to work “behind the scenes”. The project of IDNES.cz server presents portraits of artists related to Prague.

Author: Jiří Benák

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