44 Notable alumni of
Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
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The Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague is 1217th in the world, 430th in Europe, and 9th in the Czech Republic by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 44 notable alumni from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Josef Čapek
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- translatorpainterillustratorjournalistgraphic artist
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Josef Čapek was a Czech artist who was best known as a painter, but who was also noted as a writer and a poet. He invented the word "robot", which was introduced into literature by his brother, Karel Čapek.
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David Černý
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- film actorscreenwritervisual artisttelevision actortelevision director
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David Černý is a Czech artist. His works can be seen in different locations around Prague as well as in his own, Prague-based museum, called Musoleum.
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Toyen
- Enrolled in the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
- Studied in 1919-1922
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- photographergraphic artistpaintermanufacturerdrafter
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Toyen was a Czech painter, drafter, and illustrator and a member of the surrealist movement.
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Jiří Trnka
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- pedagoguedraftspersonvisual artistfilm directorillustrator
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Jiří Trnka was a Czech puppet-maker, illustrator, motion-picture animator and film director.
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Ester Geislerová
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- film actoractorvisual artistmodeltelevision actor
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Ester Geislerová is a Czech actress and former model.
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Adolf Born
- Enrolled in the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
- Studied in 1950-1953
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- graphic artistpostage stamp designerfilm directorwriterillustrator
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Adolf Born was a Czech painter, illustrator, filmmaker and caricaturist, "known for his murkily-tinted pictures of bizarre fauna, and Victorian gentlemen in top hats and top coats". In recognition of his lasting contribution as a children's illustrator, Born was a finalist for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2008. His various international rewards and honors also include the Grand Prix at the International Salon of Cartoons in Montreal and the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France.
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Jan Zrzavý
- Enrolled in the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
- Studied in 1907-1909
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- writerpainteractorpoetuniversity teacher
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Jan Zrzavý was a Czech painter, graphic artist and illustrator.
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Ondřej Sekora
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- writerentomologistdraftspersonjuristpainter
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Ondřej Sekora was a Czech painter, illustrator, writer, journalist and entomologist. He is known mainly as an author of children books. Sekora was also one of the first propagators of rugby in Czechoslovakia.
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Peter Sís
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- visual artistfilm directorgraphic artistanimatorwriter
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Peter Sís is a Czech-born American illustrator and writer of children's books. As a cartoonist his editorial illustrations have appeared in Time, Newsweek, Esquire, and The Atlantic Monthly. In 2012 he received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for his "lasting contribution" as an illustrator of children's literature.
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Josef Svoboda
- Enrolled in the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
- Studied in 1951
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- theatrical directorphotographerpedagogueteacherscenographer
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Josef Svoboda was a Czech artist and scenic designer. He was a production designer and director, known for Amadey (1984), Laterna Magika: Puzzles (1996) and Laterna Magika: Trap (1999).
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Josef Šíma
- Enrolled in the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
- Studied in 1909-1910
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- translatorgraphic artistvisual artistpainterillustrator
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Josef Šíma was a Czechoslovak modernist painter.
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Ľudovít Fulla
- Enrolled in the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
- Studied in 1922-1927
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- graphic artistteacherpainterillustratorscenographer
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Ľudovít Fulla was a Slovak painter, graphic artist, illustrator, stage designer and art teacher. He is considered one of the most important figures of Slovak creative art in the 20th century.
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Jaroslav Róna
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- playwrightactoruniversity teacherscenographerpainter
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Jaroslav Róna is a Czech-Jewish sculptor, painter, actor, educator, and writer.
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Václav Špála
- Enrolled in the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
- Studied in 1903-1903
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- paintergraphic artistteacherillustrator
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Václav Špála was a Czech painter, graphic designer and illustrator.
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Jan Preisler
- Enrolled in the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
- Studied in 1887
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- graphic artistpainterpedagoguedesignerteacher
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Jan Preisler was a Czech painter and art professor.
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František Skála
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- writerwood carverpaintervisual artistdancer
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František Skála is a Czech sculptor, painter, children's book illustrator, musician, and dancer. He was part of one of the earliest post-modern Czech art groups, known as Tvrdohlaví (The Stubborn Ones) formed in 1987.
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Bohumil Kafka
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- pedagoguemedalistteacherart educatorsculptor
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Bohumil Kafka was a Czech sculptor and pedagogue.
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Vojtěch Preissig
- Enrolled in the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
- Studied in 1892-1897
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- politicianprintmakeropinion journalistCzechoslovak legionarypainter
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Vojtěch Preissig was a Czech typographer, printmaker, designer, illustrator, painter and teacher. He studied in Prague at the School of Applied Industrial Art (in Friedrich Ohmann's Decorative Architecture workshop) from 1892 to 1896 and at the School of Decorative Architecture from 1897 to 1898.
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Oldřich Kulhánek
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- graphic artistpaintergraphic designerpostage stamp designervisual artist
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Oldřich Kulhánek was a Czech painter, graphic designer, illustrator, stage designer and pedagogue. Kulhánek created the design for the current Czech banknotes and postage stamps.
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Mikuláš Galanda
- Enrolled in the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
- Studied in 1923-1927
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- draftspersonpaintergraphic artistillustrator
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Mikuláš Galanda was a painter and illustrator who was one of the most important pioneers and propagators of Slovak modern art. He is buried in the National Cemetery in Martin.
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Antonín Procházka
- Enrolled in the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
- Studied in 1902-1904
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- graphic artistpainterpedagoguesculptorteacher
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Antonín Procházka was a Czech Modernist painter and graphic artist.
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Stanislav Sucharda
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- medalistsculptorteacher
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Stanislav Sucharda was a Czech sculptor and professor at the Prague School of Applied Arts from 1899, and a leading figure in the Mánes Union of Fine Arts (S.U.V. Mánes), founded in 1887.
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Michaela Pavlátová
- Enrolled in the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
- Studied in 1987
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- animatorgraphic artistscreenwriterdirectorfilm director
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Michaela Pavlátová is a Czech animator, film director and teacher. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Words, Words, Words (1991) and won the Short Film Golden Bear for Repete (1995). As a feminist experimental animator Michaela's work explores themes of sex, gender, philosophy and relationality. Beyond her independent work she worked as the art director for Wildbrain Inc. She currently teaches animation at the Academy of Performing Arts, film and TV School in Prague. Michaela has also taught at the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague, the Academy of Art College, Computer Arts Institute in San Francisco and at Harvard University in Prague.
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Stanislav Kolíbal
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- graphic artistpainterdraftspersonscenographersculptor
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Stanislav Kolíbal is a Czech artist and sculptor.
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Jakub Obrovský
- Enrolled in the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
- Studied in 1897-1901
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- graphic artistpainterpedagoguewriteruniversity teacher
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Jakub Obrovský was a Czechoslovak artist, sculptor and writer.
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René Roubíček
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- pedagoguesculptorglass artistuniversity teacherdesigner
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René Roubíček was a Czech glass artist, designer, painter, musician and teacher. He was one of the leading figures of 20th century world art glass. As a teacher at the Vocational Glass School in Kamenický Šenov, an artist at the Vocational Glass School in Železný Brod and the head artist of the Borské sklo company, he was at the birth of Czech studio glass.
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Vojtěch Sucharda
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- carverrestorerteacherpuppet designersculptor
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Vojtěch Sucharda was a Czech sculptor, woodcarver and puppeteer.
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Josef Mařatka
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- pedagoguesculptorteacher
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Josef Mařatka was a Czech sculptor.
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Oldřich Blažíček
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- painterdraftspersonpuppet designertypographerteacher
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Oldřich Blažíček was a Czech painter, representative of modern landscape paintings.
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Juan Mora Catlett
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- directorfilm directorscreenwriter
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Juan Mora Catlett is a Mexican film and documentary director. He is known for making films focused on artists and the pre-Hispanic peoples of Mexico.
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Oksana Liaturynska
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- 1902-1970 (aged 68)
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- public figurepoetpainterwritersculptor
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Oksana Zinaida Mykhailivna Liaturynska was an artist, sculptor, writer, poet and public figure. Liaturynska signed her works either by her own name or by pen names: Oksana Pechenih, Roksana Vyshnevetska and Yeronim.
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Jaroslav Špillar
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- visual artistpainter
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Jaroslav Špillar was a Czech artist who specialized in painting the Chodové ("Rangers").
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Jan Kubíček
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- photographergraphic artistsculptorpaintervisual artist
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Jan Kubíček was a Czech painter and printmaker, and one of the most radical Central European exponents of constructivist and concrete art. He also spent more than a decade illustrating children's books for Czechoslovakia's main publishing house Albatros and designed iconic film posters and book covers throughout the 1960s. Moreover, having passed through a significant Lettrism phase during the early 1960s, he left behind an impressive body of photographs, illustrations and graphic art for which he received the 1999 Vladimír Boudník Award.
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Věra Janoušková
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- graphic artistpaintergraphic designercollagistsculptor
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Věra Janoušková, née Havlová was a Czech sculptor, collagist, painter and graphic artist, wife of sculptor Vladimír Janoušek. In the 1960s her sculptures made of enamel were among the highlights of Czech modern art and she is deservedly listed in Hazan's Nouveau dictionnaire de la sculpture moderne (Paris, 1970). After the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Soviet troops in August 1968, both Vera and Vladimír Janoušek lost the opportunity to exhibit and worked in seclusion. After the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia, Věra Janoušková had a retrospective exhibition at the National Gallery in Prague. In 2004, she founded the Věra and Vladimír Janoušek Foundation and bequeathed the entire estate of the couple to Museum Kampa – Jan and Meda Mládek Foundation.
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Eva Fuka
- Enrolled in the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
- In 1945 studied photography
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- photographervisual artistcollagist
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Eva Fuka-Engle was a Czech American photographer.
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Renáta Fučíková
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- writervisual artistchildren's writerillustrator
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Renáta Fučíková is a Czech book illustrator, artist and writer. She is best known for her works for children and youth about Czech and European history.
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Eva Koťátková
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- draftspersoninstallation artistvisual artistmultimedia artistconceptual artist
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Eva Koťátková is a Czech installation artist and film maker.
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Zbyněk Sekal
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- paintertranslatorartistsculptortypographer
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Zbyněk Sekal was a Czech sculptor, painter and translator. During World War II he was imprisoned for three years in the Mauthausen concentration camp. After the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968, he emigrated to Austria. Already in the mid-1960s, he was considered one of the most important and distinctive Czech sculptors.
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Zuzana Čížková
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- sculptorpaintergraphic designer
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Zuzana Čížková is a Czech sculptor and painter.
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Jano Köhler
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- paintergraphic artistfresco painterillustrator
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Jano Köhler was a Czech painter. He is known for decorating sacral buildings with frescoes and sgraffiti.
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Josef Drahoňovský
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- medalistpedagogueglass artistsculptorengraver
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Josef Drahoňovský was a Czech sculptor. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
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Otakar Sedloň
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- teacherpainter
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Otakar Sedloň was a Czech realistic painter living in Prague.
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Jan Fišer
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- university teacherdesignerarchitect
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Jan Fišer is a Czech architect, designer, and university professor.
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Václav Nejtek
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- carversculptor
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Václav Nejtek was a Czech sculptor. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
