Artists | Memory of Nations

Grandparents in Luhačovice. From right: grandfather Miroslav Pařízek, grandmother, aunt Anežka Kolaříková, unknown man

Doc. Master of Fine Arts Marian Palla

* 1953

Artists, Writer, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation

Petr Pavlík portrait, Prague 1980

Doc. Petr Pavlík

* 1945

A cultural celebrity, Art and censorship, Artists, University professor

19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r

Emil Pejša, ca. 1973-1974

Emil Pejša

* 1955

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, The underground, Artists

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Jiří Peša, 1973

Jiří Peša

* 1948

Boy Scouts, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Artists

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Working on the model of Český Krumlov, 2nd half of the 1970s

Ing., Arch. Petr Pešek

* 1938

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Artists

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jana Pešková, 80s

Jana Pešková

* 1947

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Artists

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

By the Labe river in Hradec Králové, 1962

Miloš Petera

* 1937 †︎ 2024

French Foreign Legion, Dissident, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Forced labour during the WW2, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation and 6 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 6 more anniversaries

Libuše Pilařová

academic painter Libuše Pilařová-Kverková

* 1928 †︎ 2021

Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Artists

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Theodor Pištěk in 2017

Theodor Pištěk

* 1932 †︎ 2025

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Artists

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Viktor Pivovarov (1958)

Viktor Pivovarov

* 1937

A cultural celebrity, National minorities, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, Artists

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, March 5th, 1953 - Death of Josif V. Stalin

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