Lot 199

Václav Zykmund (1914 - 1984) UNTITLED

The present work dates from the time when Václav Zykmund was excluded from all cultural life. Václav Zykmund is one of the outstanding personalities of the second surrealist wave in Czech art. He studied descriptive geometry and drawing at Charles University and the Czech Technical University in Prague. He lived and worked in Brno and Olomouc for a significant part of his life. He was active in various artistic, literary and theoretical disciplines and was involved in several artistic groups. The most important was his founding role in the post-surrealist group RA in Brno.