User:Cartoon mozarella/Radek Brož

Radek Brož (6 June 1967 Prague – 30 December 1996 Prague) was a Czech artist.

In his work, he focused on drawing, painting, graphics (especially the monotype technique). He also created wooden objects or worked on the project of documentation of Gothic templates and reconstruction of medieval furniture for the Podještědské muzeum in Český Dub.

He ranks among the authors who depict Christian themes (Marian themes, biblical themes). He also sought inspiration in folk piety and medieval ornaments.

Biography
He graduated from the Faculty of Education of Charles University, majoring in Czech language and art education.

He worked as a teacher at an elementary art school in Prague 10 and since 1996 as an assistant professor at the Department of Art Education at the Faculty of Education of Charles University. He died on 30 December 1996.

Artistic work
Radek Brož's artistic opinion was formed not only by his education at the Faculty of Education of Charles University, but also by his own study of the history of fine arts, as well as by his friendship with personalities such as Adriena Šimotová or Václav Boštík.

In the early days of his work, Radek Brož was inspired by the aesthetics of pop-art, especially Andy Warhol.

At the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, he began to be inspired by folk art with religious motifs.

A substantial part of Radek Brož's work was inspired by Marian themes. He created a Marian cycle of 52 monotypes in which he works with the Marian monogram.

Starting from the 1990s, Radek Brož also began to construct objects, especially made of wood, with religious themes and accompanied by more or less extensive texts.

Together with his wife Alena and the Czech historian Tomáš Edel, he mapped the phenomenon of Gothic templates in Czech, German and Austrian localities. In this context, the most extensive work of Radek Brož was created - an evocation of a medieval burgher room in the Podještědské muzeum in Český Dub, which is decorated with copies of Gothic templates.