Josef Bolf

Czech painter

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Josef Bolf
Josef Bolf (2017) foto Jindřich Nosek
Born	October 7, 1971 Prague Czechoslovakia
Education	Academy of Fine Arts, Prague
Known for	Painter

Josef Bolf (born October 7, 1971 in Prague) is a Czech painter. He studied at the Academy between 1990–1998. In 1995 he studied at Kongsthögskolan (Stockholm) and in 1996 at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart. From 1996 to 2002 he was a member of the art group Bezhlavý jezdec.

Bolf's creation captures the strange characters, often suffering, sometimes half-animal. His paintings are often considered depressed, gloomy, sad, melancholy.^[1] His ideas often stem from childhood spent in the southern city of Prague.

Scholarships and residences

2007 ISCP (International Studio and Curatorial Program), New York, USA
2006 Europäische Künstlerhaus, Freising, Germany
1996 Akademie der Bildende Künst, Stuttgart, Germany
1995 Kongsthögskolan, Stockholm, Sweden

Awards

2011 Umělec roku

Representations in collections

8smička, Humpolec, Czech Republic
AMC Collezione Coppola, Vicenza, Italy
Collett Prague/Munich, Czech Republic/Germany
Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Fait Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
Galerie Klatovy/Klenová, Czech Republic
GAVU, Cheb, Czech Republic
GHMP, Praha, Czech Republic
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York, USA
Marek Collection, Brno, Czech Republic
Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
National Gallery, Praha, Czech Republic
Olomouc Museum of Art, Czech Republic
Pudil Family Foundation, Praha, Czech Republic
Robert Runták Collection, Olomouc, Czech Republic

Bibliography

2018 Vaňous, Petr. Inverse Romanticism. Praha: Galerie Rudolfinum
2017 Brabec, Jaroslav. Orbis Artis: Josef Bolf. Praha: Česká televize
2016 Urban, Otto M. Life Is Painful and Breeds Disappointment: Massakr Vol.1 - Lovecraft. Plzeň: Galerie města Plzně
2015 Vaňous, Petr. Rezonance: Načeradský – Typlt – Bolf. Praha: BIGGBOSS
2012 Bolf, Josef; Štind Ondřej. Mondschein. Praha: Argo
2012 Urban, Otto M. A Mirror from the Abyss. Paris: Galerie Dukan Hourdequin
2010 Barényi, Peter. Video report about the exhibition Unheimliche. Bratislava: Artyčok.tv
2010 Vaňous, Petr. Ještě místo - pustá zem. Plzeň: Západočeská galerie
2009 Pospiszyl, Tomáš. Josef Bolf. Praha: Divus
2009 Vidlička, Jan. Interview about exhibition You Are Not You, You Are Me. Praha: Artyčok.tv
2007 Jeřábková, Edith; Vítková, Lenka. Lovci Lebek. Klatovy: Galerie U Bílého jednorožce