Oldrich Kulhanek (26 February 1940 – 28 January 2013) was a
Czech painter, graphic designer, illustrator, stage designer and
pedagogue. Kulhánek created the design for the current Czech banknotes
and postage stamps.Kulhánek was born in Prague. Beginning in
1958, he studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in
Prague, in the atelier of Karel Svolinský. He graduated in 1964, with
the cycles of illustrations to the poetry of Vladimír Holan and
Christian Morgenstern (The Gallows Songs).In 1971 he was arrested by the StB (the
Czechoslovak Secret Police) and imprisoned for "defamation of the allied
socialist states". In a graphic cycle created from 1968 to 1971, he
included "a distorted portrait of Joseph Stalin, perforated five-pointed
red stars or joyful faces of socialist workers turned into a hideous
grin". The graphics were identified as "ideologically dangerous" and
condemned to destruction. Kulhánek spent a month in prison and was
interrogated regularly for next two years. He was prohibited from
publishing.In the 1980s, he created lithographs
inspired by the development of the human body. Following the Velvet
Revolution, he visited the USA and attended the Lithographic Workshop in
Los Angeles. He also often travelled to Belgium, to study the works of
old masters.Wikipedia
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