Jiri Anderle

A painter and graphic artist, Jiri Anderle was born in 1936 in Pavlikov, Czech Republic. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, and went on to work as an actor and technician with the Black Theatre of Jiri Srnec from 1961-1968.

Anderle has held virtually hundreds of one-man and group exhibitions, and has won numerous prizes at international biennials, such as the Ljubljana Grand Prix in 1981. His works were also exhibited in the Central Exposition of the Biennial di Venezia in 1982 and 1984.  

From 1969-1973, Anderle taught at the studios of Professor J. Trnka and Z. Sklenáø at the Academy of Applied Art in Prague, and in 1986 at the Summer Academy in Salzberg.

In 2006, Jiri Anderle received a gold medal from the Czech Republic for his contributions to Czechoslovakian culture. Solidly trained in the tradition of the Old Masters, he looks to the past and the present as a source of wisdom in asserting, without cultural distinction, the continuity of human life.

His explorations of fundamental issues facing mankind determine the content and graphic character of his artworks that use the human body to visualize the soul.  Focusing on issues facing humankind, he transcended his everyday political reality to explore human experience and survival—past, present, and future.