Olga Čechová (6 April 1925 – 24 November 2010) was a
Czech
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printmaker.
A native of
Brno
Brno ( , ; ) is a Statutory city (Czech Republic), city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava (river), Svitava and Svratka (river), Svratka rivers, Brno has about 403,000 inhabitants, making ...
, 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
Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
The Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (AAAD, , abbreviated VŠUP, also known as UMPRUM) is a public university located in Prague, Czech Republic. The university offers the study disciplines of painting, illustration and graphics, ...
, where she was a pupil of
Karel Svolinský
Karel Svolinský (14 January 1896 – 16 September 1986) was a Czech painter, graphic artist, illustrator, typographer, typeface designer, theatre stage designer and university professor.
Life
Initially, in 1910–1916, Svolinský trained as a ...
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
National Gallery of Art
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.
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1925 births
2010 deaths
Czech women printmakers
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21st-century Czech women artists
Artists from Brno
Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague alumni
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