Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:22:20 +0200Wednesday centenary of birth of Jiří Kolář, unique figure equally at home in literary and visual art sphereshttps://english.radio.cz/wednesday-centenary-birth-jiri-kolar-unique-figure-equally-home-literary-and-8283023© 2026 Radio Prague International Wednesday marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the most distinctive Czech cultural figures of the last century. Perhaps best-known in his native country as a poet, Jiří Kolář is also renowned both home and abroad as a creator of often playful collages – and “crumplages”, works that began with him scrunching up paper. I spoke to Richard Drury, chief curator of the Gallery of Central Bohemia, and asked him where he would place Kolář in context of Czech visual art in the 20th century. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/kolar_jiri1979.jpg?timestamp=1737029227 Wednesday centenary of birth of Jiří Kolář, unique figure equally at home in literary and visual art spheres https://english.radio.cz/wednesday-centenary-birth-jiri-kolar-unique-figure-equally-home-literary-and-8283023 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9