1945-52 |
he studied at the University of Decorative Arts in Prague (Prof. Josef Wagner). |
1951 |
he started his restoring practice, he specialised in the Renaissance graffiti and stone sculpture. |
1952 |
he married Eva Kmentova. |
1954 |
his daughter Polana was born. |
1952-70 |
he was a member of the Union of Czech Artists. |
1956 |
his son Jasan, future sculptor, was born. |
1958 |
he visited Greece for the first time. He became a member of the creative group Trasa (until its dissolution in 1970). |
1965 |
he participated in the international sculpture symposium in Vysne Ruzbachy in Slovakia. |
1966 |
he participated in the international sculpture symposium in St. Margarethen in Austria. |
1969 |
he took the death mask of Jan Palach. At the exhibition called Sculpture and the City in Liberec he received the prize of Matyas Bernard Braun of the 3rd degree. He participated in the international sculpture symposium with Federsee in the Federal Republic of Germany. At the 2nd Prague Salon at U Hybernù in Prague he received the 1st prize of the Union of Czech Artists for the sculpture Jan. He created a tomb of Jan Palach. |
1970 |
he created a tomb of Jan Zajic. |
1974 |
he as a leader of the group together with Vaclav Bostik, Zdenek Palcr and Stanislav Podhrazsky started the seventeen year work on the restoration of the façade of the Renaissance castle in Litomysl. |
1978 |
after the reestablishment of the organisation of artists he was included into the registry of the Czech Fund of Fine Arts without signing the Antichart. |
1980 |
Eva Kmentova died. |
1981 |
he married Marie Edimanova from Litomysl. He visited Greece for the second time. |
1982 |
his daughter Eva was born. |
1987 |
he was a founding member and the Chairman of the New Group in Prague. At the exhibition - Selection from the Contemporary Czechoslovak Small Sculpture in the Gallery of A. M. Bazovsky in Trencin he was awareded the first prize. |
1988 |
he signed the chart Nekolik vet (Few Sentences). |
1989 |
he participated in the November revolution as a member of an action committee of the Union of Czechoslovak Artists. He became a founding member of the renewed and revived Artistic Union. |
1990 |
he was awarded the National Price of the Czech Republic. He became a member of the Association of Sculptors of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. |
1992 |
he participated in the art symposium Baroque and the Present at the Church of Enouncement of Virgin Mary in Litomerice. |
1994 |
he completed his restoring activity. |
1995 |
he was elected the Chairman of the Sculpture Symposium in Bronze. He made his third visit to Greece. |