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Oldrich Kulhanek

50 Birthday Card Etching, Signed, Figurative Print, Circa 1980s
50 Birthday Card Etching, Signed, Figurative Print, Circa 1980s

50 Birthday Card Etching, Signed, Figurative Print, Circa 1980s

By Oldrich Kulhanek

Located in Palm Springs, CA

Features a hand framing the number 50. Oldrich Kulhanek is one of the foremost printmakers in the Czech Republic, whose work often featured erotic images an political commentary.

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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Etching

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Fitness
Fitness

Oldrich KulhanekFitness, 1995

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H 30 in W 36 in

Fitness

By Oldrich Kulhanek

Located in Van Nuys, CA

2 squatting sumo wrestlers, one from behind, and the other seen ¾ frontal. Image 21-1/4 x 28” (546 x 711 mm). The artist, a former political dissident, had been banned from exhibit...

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1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Parable III
Parable III

Parable III

By Oldrich Kulhanek

Located in Palm Springs, CA

Male nude from this master of the human form, and the human condition. Oldrich Kulhanek was one of the foremost printmakers in the Czech Republic, whose work often featured erotic i...

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1980s Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Large Parbola Series (Numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4)
Large Parbola Series (Numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4)

Large Parbola Series (Numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4)

By Oldrich Kulhanek

Located in Van Nuys, CA

The artist, a former political dissident, had been banned from exhibiting his own work in his own country. After the fall of Communism in the former Czechoslovakia, he became the de...

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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

10 Artists of the Early 20th Century
10 Artists of the Early 20th Century

10 Artists of the Early 20th Century

By Oldrich Kulhanek

Located in Van Nuys, CA

Portraits of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Salvador Dali, Edward Munch, Egon Schiele, Wassily Kandinsky, Max Ernst, and Paul Klee with visual ref...

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1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Etching

Homo Homini Porcus
Homo Homini Porcus

Oldrich KulhanekHomo Homini Porcus, 1990

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H 4.81 in W 2.72 in D 0.01 in

Homo Homini Porcus

By Oldrich Kulhanek

Located in Van Nuys, CA

laughing pig/man referring to George Orwell’s Animal Farm and the former Communist leadership of Czechoslovakia. The artist became famous for combining the heads of the top leadersh...

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1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Etching

1 Rubl (Funny Money Series)
1 Rubl (Funny Money Series)

1 Rubl (Funny Money Series)

By Oldrich Kulhanek

Located in Van Nuys, CA

the artist, a much celebrated former political dissident in the Communist era, was the designer of all currency in circulation in the Czech Republic since 1993. While still working...

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1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Sebastian III
Sebastian III

Sebastian III

By Oldrich Kulhanek

Located in Van Nuys, CA

3 color stone lithograph of the head and torso of a male nude pierced with arrow shafts and covering his face with his upraised crossed arms.. The artist, a former political disside...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

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Oldrich Kulhanek was born on 26 February 1940 in Prague. He started studying art at the Secondary Art School in Prague. From 1958 he studied at the College of Applied Arts in Prague in the studio of Prof. Karel Svolinsky. In 1964, Kulhanek completed his studies with a dissertation and illustrations in a book of verses called "Dream" by Vladimir Holan. In 1971 Kulhanek was arrested by the StB (the Czech version of KGB) and accused of sedition and defamation of the political representatives in communist countries in his graphic sheets. It was namely the "abuse" of Stalin's face in his graphic art. The 70`s were thus marked by a total ban from exhibiting, cooperation with publishing houses and any public art. Nevertheless, Kulhanek continued to work and did not wish to play the part of a persona non grata. His art, unlike its author, found its way into the free world illegally. For instance, Kulhanek's graphic art was displayed in the "Hommage a Albrecht Dürer" exhibition in Nuremberg in 1971. The exhibition was organised to celebrate the anniversary of the 500th birthday of A. Dürer and Kulhanek exhibited under the pseudonym of Ulrich Böhm. In 1990 Kulhanek visited the USA for the first time to participate in a Lithographic Workshop in Los Angeles. Since then he has been invited to the States many times. In the summer of 1991, Kulhanek gave a seminar on drawing in the Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrne Beach and was a guest lecturer at the University of Houston-Clear Lake in Texas in 1995. Between 1992 and 1993 Kulhanek was involved in the new Czech banknotes project. During 1994 he created a cycle of lithographs called "Ecce homo". A large monography about him, written by Eva Petrova, was published in 1997.

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