There was this Marxism-Leninism lecturer who went after Picasso, and people just booed her
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He was born on September 7, 1932 in Prague to a military doctor and a music teacher. Until 1939 he lived in Josefov in East Bohemia, where he experienced the arrival of the German army. His father became the chief physician at the hospital in Náchod, the family moved there and he graduated from the gymnasium. In 1945 he became a member of the Junák. In 1952 he passed the exams at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, a year later he had to leave the school due to political pressures and studied for a year at the surveying school in Prague. From 1956 to 1960 he worked at the District Museum in Broumov. In his spare time he painted, photographed portraits of artists and monuments and devoted himself to conceptual art photography. In 1956 he married Jitka Nejezchlebová and in 1958 their son Saša was born. His brother-in-law Přemysl Nejezchleba illegally crossed the border and settled in Australia. From 1960 he worked as a surveyor in Náchod. He also attended unofficial exhibitions and was interrogated by the State Security several times. From the 1980s he exhibited and wrote professional articles for many magazines. From 1985 to 1987 he studied at the Conservatory of Photography in Hradec Králové. In the 1990s he worked for the Institute of Heritage in Pardubice. In 2019 he received the Jéža Plečnik Award. In 2025 he lived in Náchod.
