Pavel Brázda

Pavel Brázda was born August 21, 1926 in Brno. After two semesters studying Art History and Philosophy at Masaryk University in Brno, and two semesters at the Academy of Art and Design, he transferred to the Academy of Fine Arts, where he met his future wife, the painter Věra Nováková. He was expelled from his studies along with her for political reasons at the start of 1949 and placed in apprenticeship as a room painter. Between 1950-52, he attended the Higher School of Art and Design and was allowed to make a living as a so-called professional artist. He was never a member of the Czechoslovak Association of Fine Artists. Starting in 1977, he spent 10 years as stoker of a coke-fired boiler and has been retired since 1997. He began to exhibit normally in the 1990s.His first large exhibition, together with Věra Nováková, was organized in 1992 in the PKC ženské Domovy Gallery. The exhibition was accompanied by a fairly large catalogue under the Revolver Revue imprint and Brázda won the Revolver Revue prize for 1991. A series of exhibitions in Prague galleries followed, along with exhibitions outside Prague and abroad, exhibitions organized by the National Gallery and others. Since 2000, a collection of Brázda’s paintings has been part of the permanent exhibition of modern art at the Trade Fair Palace. In 2006-2007, he had a retrospective exhibition. In 2007, an extensive monograph entitled "Brázda – The Monster is Waiting, the Monster Has Time" was published under the Respekt imprint, with text in French, English and Czech. In 2007, Brázda received the Personality of the Year prize.

Život uniká smrti
2011