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Stanislav Hanzik ( * July 24, 1931 in Most) is a renowned contemporary Czech sculptor. He is especially known for free sculptures, portraits, and realizations together with architects. == Biography == Stanislav Hanzik was born in Most - an industrial city in the northern Czech Republic (until 1993 Czechoslovakia). During the Nazi occupation (1938-1945) his faily had to leave the Czech/German border region and moved closer to Prague, to Rakovnik. Here Stanislav entered the Gymnasium (equivalent to a High Scbool) and created his first colored terracottas. He retourned to Most in 1945 and made the acquaintance with his future wife Kveta (she died in 2012). After a year's study at the Padagogical Faculty of Charles University in Prague under the supervision of the Czech sculptor Karel Lidicky, he enrolled in studies at the Academy of Fine Art in Prague under the well known Czech sculptor Jan Lauda. Hanzik graduated in 1956 and was given the opportunity for another years's honorary study at the same school. In 1957, he rented a part of a house in Mala Strana, one of the historic districts of Prague, and established there his studio where he works to this day. At that time, Hanzik was working on sculptures which predestined the future orientation of his work, such as Simeon (Old man and Child), the terra cotta sculpture Gorgona-Hiroshima, Welder, and Miner. He began presenting his work in 1959 at exhibitions held by the North Bohemian Branch of the Union of Fine Artists. In 1961, he was accepted as a postgraduate student at the Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of the sculptor Vincenc Makovsky and his sculpture Welder was selected that year for the Czech exhibition at the "Biennale de la Jeunesse" in Paris. Hanzik was awardet, in direct international competition, the main sculpture prize. This achievement got him also a stipend which enabled him to study in France at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris where he took the opportunity and joined the highly regardet studios of Ossip Zadkine and Henri Georges Adam. In Hanzik's own studio in Paris, he began by now large series of dialogues and torsos. This first pieces were subsequently exposed during the artist's first solo exhibition in the "Maison de la Culture" in Le Havre in 1963. After the return from France, in 1964, Hanzik continued his postgraduate studies and simultaneously taught modeling to students of architecture of the Academy of fine Arts. He held solo exhibitions in the Czech cities, such as Litomerice, Ostrava, Hradec Kralove, Jicin, and elswhere. The great success had particularly his exhibition in Prague - at the "New Hall Gallery" in 1967. In this year, he accepted an offer from Karel Lidicky to become his assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1970, Hanzik was habilitated a privat docent. In 1991-1996 Hanzik taught at the University in Ostrava. From 1996 Hanzik devote his entiery time to his sculptor's work. During his long artistic activities, Stanislav Hanzik organized dozens of exhibitions and created numerous important sculptures. These can be seen in places such as the romonesque chapel of St. Georg on the Czech historical mountain Rip, in the Czech National Theater, in front of Carolinum - in the Old Town of Prague, on the Old Stairs of Prague Castle Hradcany, etc. Significant is Hanzik's work for the Northern Bohemia. Hanzik's sculptures decorate many interiors and public places of numbers of towns. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stanislav Hanzik」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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