Hana Jan

Hana Jan

Prof. Jan Hána was one of the last Czech sculptors educated in classical figural sculpture. He was born on 28th of October 1927 in a village Dobronice near a South Bohemian town Bechyně, where he worked at a local ceramics factory. After the war, he studied shortly at the State Ceramic School in Prague with Prof. V. Vokálek. Afterwards, he took up his sculpture studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague with Prof. Karel Pokorný (1945 – 51) and at the Academy in Zagreb in a formal Yugoslavia with Prof. A. Antunac (1947 – 48).
Hána was devoted to sculptural work done in conjunction with architecture as well as to free lyrical sculpture, mainly demonstrated by depictions of the female body. This was the genre closest to him, in which he worked largely outside of contractual obligations, in a rather discreet manner and yet still representing the most prolific aspect of his work.
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