Jan Kubíček

Jan Kubíček
Jan Kubíček in Prague (1970)
Born(1927-12-30)30 December 1927
Died14 October 2013(2013-10-14) (aged 85)
NationalityCzechoslovakian, Czech
EducationSchool of Applied Arts in Prague, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
Known forPainting, printmaking, photography
MovementConstructivism, Lettrism, Concrete art
AwardsVladimír Boudník Award
Websiteart-jankubicek.cz

Jan Kubíček (30 December 1927 – 14 October 2013) was a Czech painter and printmaker, and one of the most radical Central European exponents of constructivist and concrete art. He also spent more than a decade illustrating children's books for Czechoslovakia's main publishing house Albatros and designed iconic film posters and book covers throughout the 1960s. Moreover, having passed through a significant Lettrism phase during the early 1960s, he left behind an impressive body of photographs, illustrations and graphic art for which he received the 1999 Vladimír Boudník Award.