For his honesty and love of his craft, the court revoked his probation
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Kamil Hromádka was born on June 14, 1937 in the village of Cejle near Jihlava into a farmer’s family with a large farm, the youngest of seven children. The family survived the war unscathed, but the communists nationalized the farm. In 1952 he could not go to study painting, so he took up a course as a reproductive sculptor in Černá Voda. The school was moving, so he finished it in Hořice. After school, he did military service in Boží Dar and Košice. In 1962 he married Helena Krejčová. They settled in Skuteč and had a daughter and a son. In 1966, he obtained a permit for secondary employment. After the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, he wrote a letter of protest to the then national newspaper Práce. In 1971 he started teaching at the Secondary Industrial School of Sculpture in Hořice. In 1973 he was arrested by the police and charged with illegal business. In 1975 he was given a five-year suspended sentence, but he appealed and the regional court acquitted him. He collaborated with Josef Vajc, Jiří Marek, Stanislav Hanzlík and Vladislav Gajda. He brought his son to sculpture and in 1985 he went to work for the first time in Germany, where he returned after the Velvet Revolution. In 1992, he and his son founded the thriving stone company ART STONE Hromádka & syn. In 2021 he lived, sculpted and painted in Hořice.
