Zdenek Sigmund
Sdenek Sigmund
Life
Zdeněk Sigmund was born on October 29, 1924 in Prague, in the family of an academic painter. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (two semesters with Prof. O. Nejedlý), then at the Faculty of Education in Brno under Prof. Vincence Makovsky, B.S. Urban and Eduard Millen. He graduated in 1950, one year later he was admitted to SČVU.
He lived in Pardubice, where he had a studio in Heřmanův Městec. In the list of his individual exhibitions we can find mostly Prague, Pardubice and Heřmanův Městec, but also Brno, Chrudim and Jičín. He exhibited abroad at the EXPO'58 World Exhibition in Brussels, 1965, 1966 and 1967 in Faenze, Italy, and he was also present at Czechoslovakian ceramics exhibitions in Istanbul, Sofia, Geneva and elsewhere. Many years ago, Milan Kundera wrote: "On the safe shores of his quiet rivers, he becomes his robust, temperamental temperament. He draws, draws, makes lithography, sticks collages, is an excellent pottery model. "
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