Pavel Nesleha
Pavel Neleha was a Czech painter, drawer, graphic artist, and photographer. He was a prominent representative of the 1960s art movement and a major figure in Czech nonconformist avantgarde art. His drawings and graphical work earned him several awards and distinctions. Starting in 1965, his work was showcased regularly in group expositions in Czechoslovakia and abroad he had his first solo show in 1966.
After attending art school in Prague for four years , Neleha studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague in the studio of monumental and applied painting headed by Professor Alois Firek . His diploma work, an abstract painting that he had designed for the Concert Hall in Hradec Krlov, was banned and destroyed because it was judged ideologically objectionable by the communist state. To complete his degree, Neleha then used a collection of expressionist paintings that he had made in the course of his studies he received a school prize for this work. In 1960 he joined a group of avantgarde artists in Prague called Confrontations I and II. Through the activities of this group, he met graphic artist Vladimr Boudnk and became friends with theoreticians Frantiek mejkal and Jan K. His career was interrupted for two years by compulsory military service . In 1966 he became involved in the activities of theoretician and art critic Jindich Chalupeck. In the spring of 1968 the
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