Václav Boštík was a Czech painter, graphic artist and illustrator.

In 1937 he joined the Academy in Prague

Academy of Fine Arts in Prague

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 and from 1942, he was a member of the Umělecká berseda (Art Forum). In 1960 he became one of the founding members of the UB 12 Group.

His early work is much influenced by painters Corot and Cézanne

Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th...

 and realism

Realism (arts)

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. However, by the late 1950s, he had begun painting abstract art. Later he participated in the restoration of Renaissance artistic work on the facade of Litomyšl

Litomyšl

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 castle.

Shortly before his death, in 2004 he received an award from the Minister of Culture and in the same year Medal of Merit from the President of the Czech Republic

President of the Czech Republic

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His work is on display in Prague City Gallery.