Pavel Brázda

Pavel Brázda (2012)

Věra s brýlemi (1955)

Pavel Brázda (born August 21, 1926 in Brno ; died December 17, 2017 in Prague ) was a Czech painter.

Life

Pavel Brázda grew up as the son of the lawyer and politician Oswald Brázda in Brno. A grandmother was the writer Helena Čapková , her brothers the artists Karel Čapek and Josef Čapek . In 1939, the occupied German Reich the Czechoslovakia . His father was imprisoned in a forced labor camp and his great-uncle Josef Čapek was murdered in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945 .

After the Second World War, Brázda studied at the Brno Art School and the Prague Art Academy . As he politically and artistically not at the price of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia wanted to customize (KSČ), he was expelled and had his dream job of being a painter, give up. From then on, he worked as a house painter, painter's assistant and stoker for a living. In his private life he was allowed to paint, but was not accepted into the artists' association and could therefore neither exhibit, sell nor travel abroad. Brázda painted in a non-conformist style and borrowed from the Dadaists and Surrealists . At times he worked with his wife Věra Nováková as an illustrator for a publishing house. In 1978 they had their only public exhibition.

After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, Brázda's painting attracted national and international attention. In 1989 his daughter Kateřina was able to put his pictures in a small exhibition. In 1992 he had a joint exhibition with his wife Věra. In 2006 it was exhibited in the Prague National Gallery on the occasion of his 80th birthday .

Brázda received the Czech Republic Medal of Merit in 2008 .

From the beginning of June to the beginning of July 2017 the Library of Birmingham exhibited his pictures under the title 'Pavel Brázda is Here!' out.

Brázda died on December 17, 2017 at the age of 91.

Obluda čeká, obluda má čas . (German translation: The monster is waiting, the monster has time ) Signed PB 1949
Proces (1970)
Chodící krabice (1954)
5 minut před koncem světa (German translation: 5 minutes before the end of the world )
Stroj času, inkoustový tisk na plátně
Zazvoní zvonec a ...
Každý večer čtěte tento večer
Principál a jeho družina, inkoustový tisk na plátně

Fonts

Věra Nováková , with contributions from Drury R, Brázda P, P Pečinková . Argo, Prague 2010, ISBN 978-80-257-0395-3 .

literature

Brázda, Pavel . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 14, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22754-X , p. 36.

Web links

Commons : Pavel Brázda - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Pavel Brázda in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Pavel Brázda in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

^ Susan Moore: Pavel Brázda: Out of dystopia . Review of an exhibition in Birmingham . In: Financial Times , May 27, 2017, p. L & A13.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Susan Moore: Pavel Brázda: out of dystopia , Financial Times , May 26, 2017 (English).
↑ Pavel Vokatý, Filip Šenk: Zemřel výrazný SOLITÉR, malíř Brázda. Hominista na okraji scény . Lidové noviny , December 17, 2017, accessed on December 18, 2017 (“Expressive solitaire Brázda died”; Czech).

personal data
SURNAME	Brázda, Pavel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Czech painter
DATE OF BIRTH	August 21, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brno
DATE OF DEATH	17th December 2017
Place of death	Prague

[1] Susan Moore: Pavel Brázda: Out of dystopia . Review of an exhibition in Birmingham . In: Financial Times , May 27, 2017, p. L & A13.

[FT-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Susan Moore: Pavel Brázda: out of dystopia , Financial Times , May 26, 2017 (English).

[3] Pavel Vokatý, Filip Šenk: Zemřel výrazný SOLITÉR, malíř Brázda. Hominista na okraji scény . Lidové noviny , December 17, 2017, accessed on December 18, 2017 (“Expressive solitaire Brázda died”; Czech).