Jiří Anderle
(*1936) Czech Republic
Creative activities
He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 1961 (painting under Antonín Pelc and printmaking under Vladimír Silovský). The style in his drawings and prints took shape while he worked at the Black Light Theatre, with whom he travelled nearly the entire world as a technician and actor. He started to become well-known, especially abroad, in the mid-1960s. From 1969 – 73 he worked at the Prague Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design as an assistant to Zdeněk Sklenář and Jiří Trnka. Anderle has held close to one hundred solo exhibitions throughout the world and has won around forty awards. His work is represented in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. A versatile man of the arts, he is also the drummer for the band Grafičanka and a writer, actor and musical director for the popular radio programme Láska za lásku. In 2006 he was awarded the Bronze Medal of Merit.
