Radomír Kolář
Radomír Kolář (19 August 1924 – 5 October 1993) was a Czech painter, illustrator, graphic artist and art teacher. Life He first began painting as a self-taught painter with the basics of drawing by Rudolf Puchold at high school in his hometown of Rakovník. He graduated in 1943, but due to the closure of the universities by the German occupiers, it was not possible to continue his studies, so he remained at home at the farm until the end of the war. After the war, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague until 1950, first with Vratislav Nechleba, and then with Miloslav Holý. He then remained at the academy until 1964, when he left for the Army Art Studio and became a representative of socialist realism in the fine arts. In 1978 he became a Merited Artist and in 1985 a National Artist. He returned to the academy as professor from 1985 until 1989. He died after a long illness in Prague in 1993. Work He devoted himself to painting, drawing, graphics and illustration, and designed postage stamps. Since he grew up in a farm, the subject of his work was mostly animals, especially horses. He also