This is a list of

Czech Czech may refer to: * Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe ** Czech language ** Czechs, the people of the area ** Czech culture ** Czech cuisine * One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus' Places *Czech, ...

artists. These include artists in traditional media such as

painting Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ...

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed ...

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printmaking Printmaking is the process of creating artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand processed techniq ...

as well as other genres, including

installation art Installation art is 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 ...

performance art Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a pu ...

conceptual art Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns. Some works of conceptual art, sometimes called insta ...

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video art Video art is an art form which relies on using video technology as a visual and audio medium. Video art emerged during the late 1960s as new consumer video technology such as video tape recorders became available outside corporate broadcasting ...

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* Miroslav Adámek, (1957-2002), painter, illustrator *

Mikoláš Aleš Mikoláš Aleš (18 November 1852 – 10 July 1913) was a Czech painter. Aleš is estimated to have had over 5,000 published pictures; he painted for everything from magazines to playing cards to textbooks. His paintings were not publicized to ...

, (1852–1913), painter * Jiří Anderle, (born 1936), painter, graphic artist *

Jaroslav Augusta Jaroslav Augusta (September 4, 1878 in Humpolec - February 28, 1970 in Banská Štiavnica) was a Czechoslovak painter, based in modern-day Slovakia. Background From 1897-1901 he studied with Professor M. Pirner at the Academy in Prague and late ...

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Jan Autengruber Jan Autengruber (25 April 1887, Pacov – 15 July 1920, Prague) was a Post-impressionist painter. Biography After the early death of his father, his family moved to České Budějovice. After completing his primary education, he was accepted at t ...

, (1887-1920), painter

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* Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová (1894–1980), graphic artist *

Vladimír Boudník Vladimír Boudník (17 March 1924 in Prague – 5 December 1968 in Prague) was a graphic artist, photographer and a key figure in Czech post-war art, and a representative of the "explosionism" movement. He is best known for his active and structu ...

(1924–1968), photographer and graphic artist *

Jaroslava Brychtová Jaroslava may refer to: * Jaroslava Bajerová (1910–1995), Czech gymnast * Jaroslava Brychtová (born 1924), Czech glass artist and sculptor * Jaroslava Bukvajová (born 1975), Slovak cross country skier * Jaroslava Krčálová, Czechoslovak sla ...

(1924-2020), glass artist and sculptor

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David Černý David Černý (born 15 December 1967) is a Czech sculptor. His works can be mainly seen in many locations in Prague. Early life Černý was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. From 1988 to 1994 he studied at the Kurt Gebauer Studio at the Academy ...

(born 1967), sculptor

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* Dorrit Dekk (1917–2014), graphic designer, printmaker and painter *

Jiri Georg Dokoupil Jiri ( ne, जिरी) is a municipality in Dolakha District in the Bagmati Province of central Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 13,638 people.. Jiri, which lies about 190 kilometers from Kathmandu, is the ma ...

(born 1954), painter

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Emanuel Famíra Emanuel Famíra (15 November 1900, Hlinsko – 6 January 1970, Prague), was a Czech sculptor and painter. In 1933 a statue in memory of miners by Famíra was built in village of Vranov in Břasy. Demolished by German authorities in 1941. Famíra, ...

(1900–1970), sculptor and painter

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* Vladimír Havlík (born 1959), action artist, painter *

Vlastislav Hofman Vlastislav Hofman (6 February 1884 – 28 August 1964) was an artist and architect who lived and worked first in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and later in Czechoslovakia. Though he was a painter, set designer, graphic artist, furniture designe ...

(1884–1964), painter, designer and architect * Alexandr Vladimír Hrska (1890-1954), painter, graphic designer, and scenographer

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František Janák František Janák (born 1 June 1951) is a Czechs, Czech glass artist. He creates glass sculptures and commission works, and also does series production design for different Czech glassworks. Biography Janák was born on 1 June 1951 in Havlíčk� ...

(born 1951), glass artist

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* Lukáš Kándl (born 1944), painter *

Milan Knížák Milan Knížák (; born 19 April 1940) is a Czech performance artist, sculptor, noise musician, installation artist, political dissident, graphic artist, art theorist and pedagogue of art associated with Fluxus. Biography Childhood and early ...

(born 1940), performance artist *

Běla Kolářová Běla Kolářová née Helclová (24 March 1923, in Terezín – 12 April 2010, in Prague) was a Czech Czech may refer to: * Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe ** Czech language ** Czechs, the people of the area ** ...

(1923–2010), collagist and photographer *

Marian Korn Marian Korn (1914–1987) was a Czechoslovakian printmaker. She was born February 15, 1914, in Chomutov, Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1931, she moved to Prague, and in 1931, she graduated from the Women's College of Prague. She married in 1938, ...

(1914-1987), printmaker * Věra Kotasová (1939–2019), painter, printmaker *

Jan Kotík Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to: Acronyms * Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN * Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code * Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group * Japanese Article Numb ...

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Ludvík Kuba Ludvík Kuba (April 16, 1863 in Poděbrady, Bohemia – November 30, 1956 in Prague) was a Czech landscape painter, musician, writer, professor in the Academy of Fine Arts Prague, Academy of Fine Arts. He was a representative of the Late-Impre ...

(1863–1956), painter * Alena Kupčíková (born 1976), contemporary artist * Frantizek Kupka (23 September 1871 – 24 June 1957), painter, abstract expressionist * Vladimir Kokolia (born 1956)

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Josef Lada Josef Lada (born 17 December 1887 in Hrusice, Bohemia – 14 December 1957 in Prague, buried at Olšany Cemetery) was a Czech painter, illustrator and writer. He is best known as the illustrator of Jaroslav Hašek's World War I novel ''The Go ...

(1887–1957), painter, illustrator

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* Martin Mainer (born 1959), painter * Adéla Matasová (born 1940), sculptor * Alena Matejka (born 1966), sculptor *

Alphonse Mucha Alfons Maria Mucha (; 24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939), known internationally as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist, living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, best known for his distinctly stylized and decorat ...

(born 1860) graphics artist, sculptor

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* Jakub Obrovský (1882–1949), sculptor *

Eduard Ovčáček Eduard Ovčáček (5 March 1933 – 5 December 2022) was a Czech graphic artist, sculptor, lettrist, painter, and professor at the University of Ostrava. His main artistic focus was classical graphic art, visual and concrete poetry, serigraphic ...

(born 1933), lettrist, graphic artist, sculptor, painter

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Tom Samek Tom Samek (11 March 1950 – October 2021) was a Czech artist who lived and worked in Australia.
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(1950–2021), muralist * Malva Schalek (1882–1944), painter * Miloš Šejn (born 1947), performance artist * Jaroslava Severová (born 1942), printmaker *

T. F. Šimon T is the twentieth letter of the Latin alphabet. (For the same letterform in the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets, see Te and Tau respectively). T may also refer to: Codes and units * T, Tera- as in one trillion * T, the symbol for "True" in lo ...

(1877–1942), painter, printmaker * František Skála (born 1956), sculptor, painter * Milena Šoltészová (born 1939), printmaker *

Václav Špála Václav Špála (24 August 1885 in Žlunice – 13 May 1946 in Prague) was a Czech painter, graphic designer and illustrator. He studied at Prague Academy. He was a member of the group Tvrdošíjní (The Obstinate) and exhibited with them. At th ...

(1885–1946) painter, graphic designer, illustrator * Hana Storchová (born 1936), painter, printmaker *

Viktor Stretti Viktor Stretti, born Vítězslav Otakar Stretti (7 April 1878 in Plasy – 3 March 1957 in Dobříš) was a well known Czech etcher and lithographer Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibil ...

(1878–1957), engraver * Naděžda Synecká (1926–2021), printmaker

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Karel Teige Karel Teige (13 December 1900 – 1 October 1951) was a Czech modernist avant-garde artist, writer, critic and one of the most important figures of the 1920s and 1930s movement. He was a member of the ''Devětsil'' (Butterbur) movement in the 1 ...

(1900–1951), graphic artist and photographer

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Martin Velíšek Martin Velíšek (born 21 October 1963 in Duchcov, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech artist whose work spans the media of glass and canvas, animated film, album covers, book covers, restaurant menus, napkin packaging, TV packaging, photography, sculpture ...

(born 1963) glass artist, painter *

Aleš Veselý Aleš Veselý (3 February 1935, Čáslav - 14 December 2015, Prague) was a Czech sculptor, graphic artist, painter and academy teacher. Life Aleš Veselý came from a mixed Jewish family of an insurance clerk and during World War II he lived wit ...

(1935-2015), sculptor *

Jiří Votruba Jiří Votruba (born 8 December 1946 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic designer - artist with characteristic style. His paintings were presented at almost 50 exhibitions all around the world. His work is divid ...

(born 1946), designer, painter

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Julie Wimmer Julie Wimmer (born October 18, 1975) is a Czech designer. Childhood and early life Julie Wimmer was born in 1975. After graduating from academic high school, she lived and studied for several years in Switzerland and Great Britain. In London, s ...

(born 1975), designer

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Helen Zelezny-Scholz Helen Zelezny, also known in Europe as Helene Zelezny-Scholz, Helen Scholz, Helene Scholz-Zelezny or Helene Scholzová-Železná (16 August 1882 – 18 February 1974), was a Czech born sculptor and architectural sculptor. She was an influential ...

(1882–1974), sculptor *

Ludmila Zeman Ludmila Zeman (born 23 April 1947) is a Czech Canadians, Czech–Canadian artist, animator, and creator of children's books. She is the daughter of filmmaker Karel Zeman. Zeman was born in the Moravian Czech city of Zlín (renamed Gottwaldov in ...

(born 1947), Czech-Canadian animator * Kamila Ženatá (born 1953), installations, video art * Helena Zmatlíková (1923–2005), illustrator

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