Jan Švankmajer
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Jan Švankmajer is a Czech retired filmmaker, animator, writer, playwright and artist. He draws and makes free graphics, collage, ceramics, tactile objects and assemblages. In the early 1960s, he explo
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Jan Švankmajer at his 2012 retrospective at Prague City Gallery
Jan Švankmajer, Mushroom (object), 1966
Natural Science, Tab. 1 (1973), etching
Eva Švankmajerová
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Eva Švankmajerová was a Czech surrealist painter, ceramist, costume and stage designer, poet and prose writer. She was wife and partner of the artist and film director Jan Švankmajer. Her works are re
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…subversive mission only when, even in the most fantastic moments, they look like a record of reality. Some of the works he created together with his wife Eva Švankmajerová. Jan Švankmajer was born in Prague on 4 September 1934. His father was a window dresser and his mother a seamstress. His childhood was profoundly…
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Monkey Alki, 1966, oil, 110x131 cm
Rebus No. 2. Peace will be preserved if the people take the preservation of peace into their own hands - J.V. Stalin, 1967, oil, 126x99 cm
Rebus No. 9 (Raincoats clearly dominate fashion), 1968, oil, 66x95 cm