Císařovský Tomáš (*1962)

Democracy, 1988 (from Granddad the Legionnaire’s Diary)

acrylic tempera, canvas
45.5 x 34.5 cm
sign. na rubu T. Císařovský


T. Císařovský is one of the most important Czech painters of the generation coming to the fore in the 1980s. Císařovský’s oeuvre is typified by working in cycles, whereby the cycle of paintings From Granddad the Legionnaire’s Diary is one of the first created by him at the end of the ’80s. The cycle reminiscing about the family and, at the same time, national history from WWI, is one of the key works of his early output. The painting on offer – Democracy – is a diminished variant of a work with the same title created by Císařovský for a private collector. Published: Dostál Martin: Tomáš Císařovský. Kant 2003, unpaginated.