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1976
Format 8°, 21x15 cm, unpaginated, loose sheets on handmade paper from Velké Losiny, in a paper wrapper. Selected and translated by O. F. Babler, who is signed on the half-title. Title page printed in black. Frontispiece: original etching by O. Kulhánek, numbered 69/250 and signed. Published on the occasion of the national conference of young healthcare workers, held in honour of the 15th Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, issued by the works organisation of the Union of Socialist Youth (SSM) of the Faculty Hospital in Olomouc in the jubilee 80th year of its operation, in cooperation with the Olomouc member group of the Czech Bibliophile Society in Prague, in an edition of 250 copies.
Slightly yellowed paper margins and wrapper.
Oldřich Kulhánek - Czech painter, printmaker, illustrator, stage designer and teacher, author of the graphic design of contemporary Czech banknotes and postage stamps. Between 1958 and 1964 he studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague in the graphics studio of Prof. K. Svolinský. He had his first solo exhibition in 1968 at the Gallery of Youth in Prague, together with the painter Jan Krejčí. From 1968 he was persecuted, and in 1971 he was arrested by the StB (secret police) and imprisoned. He was accused of defaming representatives of communist countries. Throughout the 1970s he was banned from exhibiting and from publicity. His colleague and friend Krejčí was tried alongside him in the fabricated case. Eleven of Kulhánek's graphic sheets were sentenced to destruction. However, his family and friends managed to hide their printing plates until 1989, so that in the early 1990s a limited edition called Prohibita was printed from them. Kulhánek's entire body of work is characterised by a preoccupation with the human figure and the expression of states of mind. He was among the leading representatives of Czech ex libris art, received numerous awards for his graphic work, and was president of the SČUG Hollar foundation.




