František Chochola

František Chochola

František Chochola (* 1943 in Kolín ) is a Czech - German sculptor , illustrator and medalist . Chochola is best known for his illustrations of children's books and the euro coins he designed .

Life

Chochola is the son of an entrepreneur. After completing his studies in garden sculpture at the Art and Crafts School in Bechyně in 1963, he worked as a restorer in Kolín . From 1968 he designed medals and illustrated books as a freelance artist in Kolín and Prague . After the end of the Prague Spring , Chochola emigrated to Hamburg in the early 1970s . In 1992 František Chochola, who only learned the German language after emigrating, became a German citizen. His sculptures, book illustrations and designs are created in his studio in Hamburg-Alsterdorf .

Medals and Coins

• Medal "Oscár Arias Sanches - Nobel Peace Prize Laureate" Norges Bank 1990
• Medal "Europe Unity in Diversity - The discovery of Neptune by the astronomer JG Galle (1846)"
• Medal "Europe Unity in Diversity - Wilhelm Hauff ", 1999
• 1st prize - 10 Deutsche Mark silver commemorative coin "Goethe and Weimar", 1999.
• 1st prize - 10 Deutsche Mark silver commemorative coin "Albert Gustav Lortzing", 2001.
• Euro coin set of the Republic of San Marino , 2002
• 1st prize - German 10-euro silver commemorative coin " documenta Kassel ", 2002
• 1st prize - German ten euro silver commemorative coin “ Museum Island Berlin ”, 2002
• 1st prize - German ten euro silver commemorative coin " Columbus - Europe's laboratory for the International Space Station ISS", 2002
• 1st prize - German ten euro silver commemorative coin “125. Birthday of the writer Franz Kafka ”, 2008
• 1st prize - German ten euro silver commemorative coin “50 Years of Gorch Fock ” , 2008
• 1st prize - German twenty-euro gold coins " German Forest ", 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2015
• 1st prize - German one hundred euro gold coin "UNESCO World Heritage - Lorsch Abbey "
• 1st prize - German two euro silver commemorative coin " Porta Nigra ", 2014
• 1st prize - German twenty-euro gold coins "Oriole, Black Woodpecker", 2015
• 1st prize - German twenty-euro silver commemorative coin "100 Years Weimar Constitution", 2019
• 1st prize - German twenty-euro silver commemorative coin "300th birthday of Baron von Münchhausen", 2020

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  Ten euro commemorative coin Museum Island Berlin

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  Twenty Euro gold coin Germany 2011

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  Ten euro commemorative coin Documenta Kassel

Exhibitions

• 1975 Hamburg - Gallery Mensch "Plastic, Relief: Illustration"
• 1997 Düsseldorf - Heinrich Heine Institute
• 1977 Hamburg - Catholic Academy : Illustrations
• 1978 Hamburg - Kunsthaus Hamburg: Sculptures
• 1979 Kassel - Exhibition of applicants from the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo
• 1990 Hamburg - "Sculpture" feat
• 1993 Kolín, CZ - Regionální muzeum: "Výtvarné umění na Kolínsku od 40. let po současnost"
• 1994 Hanover - Museum August Kestner : Medals
• 1995 Paderborn - Culture Days: Sculptures
• 1999 Hamburg - Reemtsma Collection "the Little Smoker" and "the Lady Smoker"
• 1999–2000 Waldaschaff - German Medal Museum "Sculptures and Medals"
• 2003 Dresden - Gottfried-Semper-Club Dresden eV: "Artists honor Semper"

Awards

• Coin of the year 1999 - 10 DM silver coin - "European Capital of Culture Weimar / Goethe"
• "Johann Veit Döll" engraving award from the city of Suhl in gold, 2002
• Coin of the Year - Award 2010, BEST SILVER COIN 2010 - coty award -> Franz Kafka
• Coin of the year 2019 - 20 Euro silver commemorative coin - "100 years of the Weimar Constitution

Works (illustrations)

• Sandman: bedtime stories; to read aloud and dream , told by Ilonka Breitmeier. Junge Welt, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-7302-1464-0 .
• The old New Year's Eve and the year child, a fairy tale , told by Eduard Mörike. Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-87838-288-X .

literature

• Hildegard Nägele: Frantisek Chochola a Czech illustrator in Germany. In: Illustration 63 . No. 1/1980 , ISSN  0019-2457 , pp. 22-26.
• Ulf Dräger, Andrea Stock (arr.): The world "en miniature": German medal art today. 2000-2006. Moritzburg Foundation, Halle (Saale) 2007, ISBN 978-3-937751-54-2 , p. 137.
• Gerd Dethlefs, Wolfgang Steguweit (ed.): GeldKunst-KunstGeld. German commemorative coins since 1949. Design and designer. Numismatischer Verlag Künker, Osnabrück 2005, ISBN 3-9801644-7-0 , pp. 96, 107, 125, 153, 183, 291, 301, 307, 321, 322, 333, 336, 349, 354, 361, 362, 371, 374, 375.
• Petr Haimann: Slovník autorů a zhotovitelů mincí, medailí, plaket, vyznamenani a odznaku. Libri Publishing House, Prague 2006, ISBN 80-7277-324-0 .

Press

• 1999 Main Echo December 27, 1999 "Heroes and Signals"
• 2000 German Coins Magazine 2/2000, p. 25 "Münzdesigner Frantisek Chochola"
• 2001 OZ weekend edition 6. – 7. January 2001 "Mint honors composer Albert Lortzing"
• 2002 Berlin Tagesspiegel July 31, 2002 "The Museum Island for ten euros"
• 2002 Berliner Morgenpost July 31, 2002 “Gem” The Museum Island Berlin
• 2005 Hamburger Abendblatt August 24, 2005, p. 26 "The coin designer from Alsterdorf"
• 2006 Hamburg Airport 1/2006 "Euros with collector's value"
• 2008 “Imagination is the most important thing” . In: prägefrisch.de - Journal für Münzsammler, No. 2, 2008, p. 3. Issue on the web , PDF document
• 2010 Prägefrisch.de 2/2010 "the motifs of the 20-euro gold coins 2010 to 2015"
• 2014 Prägefrisch.de 3/2014 "100 Euro gold coin 2014"

Web links

Commons : František Chochola  - collection of images

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Download of the images of the engraving award "Johann Veit Döll" 2002 of the city of Suhl ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (as a tif file). City of Suhl, accessed on February 20, 2010. 
2. ↑ Now there is color in the DEUTSCHES MÜNZEN MAGAZIN collection in July / August 2019.
3. ↑ "Johann Veit Döll" engraving award from the city of Suhl ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . City of Suhl, accessed on February 20, 2010.