Richard Fremund

imagesAt the Kampa Museum there was a retrospective of the Czech artist, Richard Fremund. You’ve never heard of him? Either had we. He was born in 1928, and died in a car wreck in 1969.

We liked what we saw.  Here’s a sample, in roughly chronological order.

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This one is called “Return of the Foreign Worker.” The jacket of the worker and what he’s carrying, is sculptural. The later work becomes increasingly abstract.

 

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freidmun3friedmun4friendmun5You can see more if you enter his name in Google images.  But I couldn’t find anything written about him in English.

 

 

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