Pavel Brázda

Pavel Brázda was a Czech artist. After his expulsion from Academy in 1949 and throughout the communist regime until 1989, his work developed in isolation, without the possibility to exhibit. More consistently than any artist of his generation, Pavel Brázda was an absolutely uncompromising opponent of the communist system. According to Milan Knížák, rector of the Prague Academy, Brázda is considered one of the most original artists in the Czech and European context. After Pavel Brázda's record-breaking exhibition at the National Gallery and the publication of his large monograph in 2006, he was selected as Personality of the Year in a poll of 90 leading art historians.