Olga Čechová (6 April 1925 – 24 November 2010) was a

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printmaker. A native of

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, Čechová studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in that city from 1941 until 1944. From 1946 until 1951 she was a student at the

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, where she was a pupil of

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and . She was active mainly as an illustrator, and her work appeared in many magazines and books, both for children and for adults. One of her prints is owned by the

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