Drápal Vladimír 1921–2015

The Animal, 1975

bronze, 26,3 cm, signed below V.D. 75 (additionally)
Vladimír Drápal (1921–2015) graduated from the School of Arts and Crafts in Brno in 1938–1942 and from the Academy of Arts and Crafts in Prague in the studio of Josef Kaplický in 1945-1949. From the 1960s he taught at current Brno's Masaryk University, where he educated a number of prominent artists. Since 1958 he was a member of the Brno creative group Profil and since 1990 a member of the Q Brno Association. He created a number of sculptures for public space, such as Venus (1982) in Brno's Anthropos Park. His work is represented, among others, in the collections of the Moravian Gallery, the Brno City Museum, the National Gallery in Prague and is in the collections of many European galleries. For his lifelong artistic and pedagogical career he has been repeatedly awarded the Brno City Prize, in 2011 he received the South Moravian Region Prize and the Artis Bohemiae Amicis medal. Lit: Milada Hlaváčková, Jiří Hlušička, Jaroslav Malina. Provenance: from the author's studio.