Post-war Czechoslovakian Printmakers in the Permanent Collection

15 July–30 August 1987

During and after World War II, cultural ties between the West and Czechoslovakia were cut, with the result that many of Czechoslovakia’s artists did not benefit from the sweeping changes in the mainstream of modern art during the 1940s and 1950s. However, those times were re-established in the mid-1960s by artists Jiri Anderle, Jiri Balcar, Albin Brunovsky, Karel Demel, Vladimir Gazovic, Jan Krejici, Alena Kucerova, Ladislav Kuklik, Oldrich Kulhanek, Adriena Simotova, Vladimir Suchanek, and Jaroslav Vozniak, who were featured in an exhibition of 48 prints from the Smart Museum’s permanent collection. The themes of their work reflect the political upheaval associated with German, and later, Soviet occupation. 

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