Vera Krumphanzlova
Academic paintress
Member of the Union of the Czech Creative Artists
FF16 (French fraction)
AJV
Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. After the School of glass-work in Železný Brod, she has graduated on Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague on turn of sixties and seventies. Studied calligraphy and seminaries on Japanese sumi-e (ink brush painting) at Japanese embassy and Japanese association in Prague.
Participated on making the influential Czech-French coproduced animated movie La planete sauvage. Worked for radio broadcasting, TV, as an art specialist for several newspapers and magazines. Made illustrations for over 30 books and school-textbooks, designed over 100 titles of CD and MC, many logos and logotypes, posters.
Between 1996 - 2000 worked as a head manager of Chodovska tvrz - gallery in Prague. During that time, there were around 80 exhibitions of significant artists from both Czech and abroad. Inspired and organized a lot of cultural projects.
In 1999 has won an international prize and undertook a month residency in France.
In 2000 - 2008 worked as architect manager and author of a lot of exibition projects for municipal authorities of Prague, Ministry of education (for example Schola Pragensis), House of national minorities (Ethnics in culture), Portheimka (Diffusion 1, Diffusion 2), KK Postovka (around 40 exibitions of modern art).
At the end of 2009 received a foundation grant and passed a month residency in atelier of French painter Jean Miotte in Provence (Pignans).
Have had over 150 individual exibitions.
Galleries, muzeums and private collections contains her graphic arts (litography, dry needle, serigraphy) and painter production (oil painting, pastel, acryl): (the most important*)
*(Germany) Berlin, Munich, Cham, Furth im Wald, Regensburg
*(Czech republic) Prague - National Gallery, Komercní banka, a lot of muzeums in Czech
*(Netherlands) Amsterodam, Haarlem
*(USA) New York
*(Great Britain) Oxford
*(Japan) Nagasaki, Tokio
*(France) Nancy, Paris
*(Italy) Arezzo
*(Switzerland) Geneva
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Awards: 1980 - Czechoslovak author Prague - special award for ilustrations (Jakub Arbes - Romaneto), 1988 - Ex libris - Nancy France - special award, 1998 2nd price Arezzo Italy - bijoux graphics, Nagasaki Japan - word-wide graphics, 1999 Dorothea gallery SNR - graphics, 1999-2009 Best graphics of the year - regulary participating
Lives and works in Prague.
You can send a mail to vera @ krumphanzlova . cz here.
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