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          The artists featured include printmakers, Jiří Anderle and Oldřich Kulhánek, and photographers, Jan Saudek, Pavel Baňka, and Václav Chochola.

        1. The artists featured include printmakers, Jiří Anderle and Oldřich Kulhánek, and photographers, Jan Saudek, Pavel Baňka, and Václav Chochola.
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        3. Oldrich Kulhanek ( - ) is known for Painting.
        4. Oldrich Kulhanek was born on 26 February in Prague.
        5. Kulhánek studied from to at the Academy of Arts and Crafts in Prague under Karel Svolinský.

          6. Oldrich Kulhanek ( - ) is known for Painting....

          Oldřich Kulhánek

          Oldřich Kulhánek (26 February – 28 January [1]) was a Czech painter, graphic designer, illustrator, stage designer and pedagogue.

          Kulhánek created the design for the current Czech banknotes and postage stamps.[2]

          Life and career

          Kulhánek was born in Prague. Beginning in , he studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, in the atelier of Karel Svolinský.

          He graduated in , with the cycles of illustrations to the poetry of Vladimír Holan (Sen, (in English: Dream)) and Christian Morgenstern (The Gallows Songs).[3]

          In 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 to , he included "a distorted portrait of Joseph Stalin, perforated five-pointed red stars or joyful faces of socialist workers turned into a hideous grin".[4] The graphics were identified as "ideologically dangerous" and condemned