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Jan Koblasa was born in Tabor, Czechoslovakia, in 1932 and is now resident in Hamburg. He is a painter, sculptor and engraver. He emigrated from Czechoslovakia in 1968 - about the same time as Holy. He developed artistically in Prague in the 1950s, at the time of the rigid cultural and political dictatorship of the communist regime. From 1952-58 he studied at the Prague Academy of Arts, which had a strictly controlled and limited curriculum, but also joined illegal free artists' clubs developing towards the end of the fifties and beginning of the sixties. The groups produced a number of private exhibitions under the name 'Confrontation'. These exhibitions were concerned with abstraction, the core of the controversy with the official aesthetics. Koblasa soon earned fame as one of the leading representatives of the unofficial art of abstraction. His exhibition at Teplice in 1963 with the unofficial painter Mikulas Medek was a notable cultural event. The cultural movement which Koblasa represented was one of the great intellectual sources leading to the Prague Spring in 1968, the attempt of the Czech nation to regain liberty. After this, Koblasa had little option but to emigrate. From 1969, he lived in Kiel, and established and ran the Department of Free Sculpture at Muthesius University. Since 1982 he has lived in Hamburg. | Publisher: | University of St Andrews | Rights holder: | 47795 | Subjects: | KOBLASA SKULL JAN LADISLAV HOLY print | Temporal: | 1977/1977 | Source: | University of St Andrews | Creator: | KOBLASA, Jan | Identifier: | HC2004.12 | Language: | en-GB |
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