List of Czech artists by date
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This is a list by date of birth of Czech
fine art
ists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting
, sculpture
, photography
, and printmaking
, as well as more recent genres, including installation art
, performance art
, conceptual art
, and video art
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Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
fine art
Fine art
Fine art or the fine arts encompass art forms developed primarily for aesthetics and/or concept rather than practical application. Art is often a synonym for fine art, as employed in the term "art gallery"....
ists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
, sculpture
Sculpture
Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
, photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
, and printmaking
Printmaking
Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Printmaking normally covers only the process of creating prints with an element of originality, rather than just being a photographic reproduction of a painting. Except in the case of monotyping, the process is capable...
, as well as more recent genres, including installation art
Installation art
Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...
, performance art
Performance art
In art, performance art is a performance presented to an audience, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or...
, conceptual art
Conceptual art
Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions...
, and video art
Video art
Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and comprises video and/or audio data. . Video art came into existence during the 1960s and 1970s, is still widely practiced and has given rise to the widespread use of video installations...
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19th century
1863- Ludvík KubaLudvík KubaLudvík Kuba was a Czech landscape painter, musician, writer, professor in the Academy of Fine Arts. He was a representative of the Late-Impressionism and he collected folk traditions.-Life:...
(1863–1956), painter
1877
- T. F. ŠimonT. F. SimonTavík František Šimon , was a painter, etcher, and woodcut artist....
(1877–1942), painter, printmaker
1882
- Jakub ObrovskýJakub ObrovskýJakub Obrovský was a Czech artist.He was born in Brno-Bystrc and died in Prague.In 1932 he won a bronze medal for Czechoslovakia in the art competitions of the Olympics for his "Odysseus".-External links:...
(1882–1949), sculptor - Malva SchalekMalva SchalekMalva Schalek, aka Malvina Schalková , was an Czech-Jewish painter.-Life:Malva Schalek was born in Prague, to a German-speaking Jewish intellectual family active in the Czech national movement. She went to school in Prague, Vrchlabi , and began to study art, first at the Frauenakademie in Munich ...
(1882–1944), painter
1884
- Vlastislav HofmanVlastislav HofmanVlastislav Hofman was a Czech artist and architect. Though he was a painter, set designer, graphic artist, furniture designer, and author, Hofman is best known as an architect strongly influenced by Cubism....
(1884–1964), painter, designer and architect
1894
- Helena Bochořáková-DittrichováHelena Bochoráková-DittrichováHelena Bochořáková-Dittrichová was a highly accomplished Czech graphic artist....
(1894–1980), graphic artist
1900
- Emanuel FamíraEmanuel FamíraEmanuel Famíra , was a Czech sculptor and painter. In 1933 a statue in memory of miners by Famíra was built in village of Vranov . Demolished by German authorities in 1941. Famíra, lifelong communist, became one of prominent artists of socialist realism...
(1900–1970), sculptor and painter - Karel TeigeKarel TeigeKarel Teige was the major figure of the Czech avant-garde movement Devětsil in the 1920s, a graphic artist, photographer, and typographer...
(1900–1951), graphic artist and photographer
20th century
1923- Běla KolářováBela KolárováBěla Kolářová née Helclová was a Czech artist and photographer.Běla Kolářová belongs to the generation which touched off an iconoclastic revolution and "rearmament" in Czech art during the 1960s...
(1923 2010), collagist and photographer
1924
- Vladimír BoudníkVladimír BoudníkVladimír Boudník was a key figure in Czech post-war art, and a representative of the "explosionism" movement...
(1924–19680, photographer and graphic artist - Jaroslava Brychtová (born 1924), glass artist and sculptor
1927
- Jan KotíkJan KotíkJan Jakub Kotík was a Czech artist and rock drummer.- Life :Jan Jakub was the son of composer Petr Kotík and curator of contemporary art Charlotta Kotík, who emigrated to the USA in 1970. Jan was a musician and visual artist...
(1927–2007)
1933
- Eduard OvčáčekEduard OvčáčekEduard Ovčáček , Czech graphic artist, sculptor, lettrist, painter and professor at University of Ostrava....
(born 1933), lettrist, graphic artist, sculptor, painter
1935
- Aleš VeselýAleš VeselýAleš Veselý is a Czech sculptor. From 1952 to 1958, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. At the end of the 1950, he was part of the art movement known as the Czech Abstraction. More recently, he has worked on monumental sculptures, often connected with a specific landscape...
(born 1935), sculptor
1940
- Milan KnížákMilan KnížákMilan Knížák is a Czech performance artist, sculptor, musician, installation artist, dissident, graphic artist, art theorist and pedagogue of art.-Childhood and early life in the Protectorate and in the former Sudetenland :...
(born 1940), performance artist
1946
- Jiří VotrubaJirí VotrubaJiří Votruba is a Czech artist, illustrator, and graphic designer. He is best known for his artwork commonly found on t-shirts, mugs, and posters in shops throughout Prague, Czech Republic including depictions of Franz Kafka, Mozart, and various Prague scenes and themes.-External links:*...
(born 1946), designer and painter
1947
- Miloš ŠejnMiloš ŠejnMiloš Šejn is a Czech artist ....
(born 1947), performance artist
1950
- Tom SamekTom SamekTom Samek is a Czech artist living and working in Australia. He is a painter, stage designer and printmaker.-Life and work:...
(born 1950), muralist
1951
- František JanákFrantišek JanákFrantišek Janák is a Czech glass artist. He creates glass sculptures and commission works, and also does series production design for different Czech glassworks....
(born 1951), glass artist
1954
- Jiri Georg DokoupilJiri Georg DokoupilJiri Georg Dokoupil is a contemporary Czech painter. He was member of the artist groups Mülheimer Freiheit and Junge Wilde, which arose in the late 1970s and early 1980s....
(born 1954), painter
1956
- František SkálaFrantišek SkálaFrantišek Skála jr is a Czech sculptor, painter, children's book illustrator, musician, and dancer.He studied woodcarving at Secondary Applied Arts School Prague, 1971–1975 and in 1982 graduated from the University of Applied Arts in film and television graphics.He achieved his first major...
(born 1956), sculptor, painter
1959
- Martin MainerMartin MainerMartin Mainer is a Czech artist and professor. He studied: VŠUP in Prague 1978 - 81, AVU 1981 - 85 -Career:...
(born 1959), painter
1963
- Martin VelíšekMartin VelíšekMartin Velíšek is a popular Czech artist whose work spans the media of glass and canvas, animated film, album covers, book covers, photography, sculpture, and interiors....
(born 1963) glass artist, painter