Leading Czech art and architecture expert Jiří Ševčík has died

Art curator and academic Jiří Ševčík has died at the age of 82, the spokeswoman of the Academy of Fine Arts where Ševčík taught Petra Švecová announced on Tuesday. Together with his wife Jana, Ševčík had a major impact on Czech art, helping to popularise several of the countries artists during the 1980s.

Born in 1940 in the city of Pardubice, Ševčík worked as a journalist in the Czechoslovak “Architektura” magazine during the 1960s. He then worked as a researcher at the Architecture Faculty of the Czech Technical University in Prague.

After the Velvet Revolution, Ševčík was named chief curator at the Prague City Gallery and taught at the Academy of Fine Arts. He was also the author of several books on Czech and Slovak architecture.