40 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 1482nd in the world, 511th in Europe, and 9th in the Czech Republic by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 40 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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- photographerart theoristgraphic artistjournalistillustrator
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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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- conceptual artistscreenwritervisual artistsculptorphilosopher
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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.
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Toyen
- Enrolled in the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
- Studied in 1919-1922
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- painterphotographergraphic artistdrafterillustrator
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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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- film directorscenographerpuppet designerpuppeteeranimator
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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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- modelvisual artistfilm actoractor
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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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- screenwriteranimatorillustratorwriterfilm director
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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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- teacherpoetactorillustratorwriter
- Biography
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Jan Zrzavý was a Czech painter, graphic artist and illustrator.
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Josef Svoboda
- Enrolled in the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
- Studied in 1951
- Occupations
- teacherpedagoguephotographertheatrical directoractor
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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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- paintervisual artistgraphic artisttranslatorillustrator
- Biography
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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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- painterteachergraphic artistscenographerillustrator
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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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- painterscenographeruniversity teacheractorplaywright
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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
- Occupations
- graphic artistpainterillustratorteacher
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- pedagoguepaintergraphic artistillustratorteacher
- Biography
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Jan Preisler was a Czech painter and art professor.
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František Skála
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- performance artistcarvermusiciangraphic artistillustrator
- Biography
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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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- teachermedalistpedagoguesculptorart educator
- Biography
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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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- painterCzechoslovak legionaryopinion journalistprintmakerpolitician
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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 designerpainterpostage stamp designergraphic artistillustrator
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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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- paintergraphic artistillustrator
- Biography
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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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- pedagoguepaintergraphic artistillustratorteacher
- Biography
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Antonín Procházka was a Czech Modernist painter and graphic artist.
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Stanislav Sucharda
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- sculptormedalistteacher
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Stanislav Sucharda, 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
- Occupations
- directorscreenwritergraphic artistanimatorillustrator
- Biography
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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 artistdrawerscenographersculptorillustrator
- Biography
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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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- writerpainteruniversity teacherpedagoguesculptor
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Jakub Obrovský was a Czechoslovak artist, sculptor and writer.
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René Roubíček
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- university teacherglass artistsculptorpedagogueteacher
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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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- puppet designerteacherrestorercarversculptor
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Vojtěch Sucharda was a Czech sculptor, woodcarver and puppeteer.
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Josef Mařatka
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- sculptorpedagogueteacher
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Josef Mařatka was a Czech sculptor.
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Juan Mora Catlett
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- film directordirectorscreenwriter
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Juan Mora Catlett is a Mexican film and documentary director. He is known for making films focused on artist and the pre-Hispanic peoples of Mexico.
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Jaroslav Špillar
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- painter
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Jaroslav Špillar was a Czech artist who specialized in painting the Chodové ("Rangers").
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Oksana Liaturynska
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- 1902-1970 (aged 68)
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- writerpainterpoetpublic figuresculptor
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Oksana Liaturynska was a Ukrainian 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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Věra Janoušková
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- graphic designerpaintergraphic artistsculptorcollagist
- Biography
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Věra Janoušková was a Czech sculptor, painter and graphic artist.
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Eva Fuka
- Enrolled in the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
- In 1945 studied photography
- Occupations
- photographercollagistvisual artist
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Eva Fuka-Engle was a Czech American photographer.
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Jan Kubíček
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- sculptorpaintergraphic artistphotographerillustrator
- Biography
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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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Renáta Fučíková
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- children's writervisual artistwriterillustrator
- Biography
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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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Zbyněk Sekal
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- sculptorartisttranslatorpaintervisual artist
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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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- graphic designerpaintersculptor
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Zuzana Čížková is a Czech sculptor and painter.
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Josef Drahoňovský
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- sculptorglass artistpedagoguemedalistteacher
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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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- painterteacher
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Otakar Sedloň was a Czech realistic painter living in Prague.
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František Janda
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- architectceramicist
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František Janda was a Czechoslovak architect and urban planner, in which capacity he authored many regulation designs. Janda studied under the tutelage of Jan Kotěra at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. Along with pianist and composer Václav Štěpán he founded the Arts Forum, for which he designed and in 1925 finished construction of his Cooperative Arts Forum building in Prague's Malá Strana district. For the remainder of his life Janda lived in this building. In 1960, four years after his death, the property was confiscated by the communist government. Janda's wife, however, was allowed to continue living there until her death. His most famous building is probably the functionalist Waldekova Vila in Hradec Králové (1937).
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Jan Fišer
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- designerarchitectteacher
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Jan Fišer is a Czech architect, designer, and university professor.
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Václav Nejtek
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- sculptorcarver
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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.
