Josef Bolf is a Czech painter.

He studied at the Academy between 1990 - 1998. In 1995 he studied at Kongsthögskolan (Stockholm

Stockholm

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) and in 1996 at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart

Stuttgart

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. From 1996 to 2002 he was a member of the art group Bezhlavý jezdec. Bolf's creation captures the strange characters, often suffering, sometimes half-animal. His paintings are often considered depressed, gloomy, sad, melancholy. His ideas often stem from childhood spent in the southern city of Prague.