Josef Bolf

Josef Bolf (1971). The essential painting of Josef Bolf, a key figure of contemporary Czech painting, delicately combines compulsiveness, vulnerability and physicality. In the themes that the author treats, his early experience with comic stylisation is strongly perceived, as well as the subsequent mastery of the scratchboard technique using ink applied to a layer of wax base. In his works, Bolf returns to his childhood, which he suggestively confronts with harsh reality – figures set in a dehumanised cities and confronted with feelings of loneliness, ruin and death, and the relationship between man and the environment in general are a theme that is continuously present in the artist’s work.

Artist works
Josef Bolf

Selected exhibitions:

  • A Premonition of Shadow, National Gallery Prague, 2019−2020
  • Summer Art Salon, KODL Gallery, 2017
  • Forlorn Martyrs Pull A Mirror From The Abyss, Dukan Gallery, Leipzig, 2014
  • Places to Forget, Arthobler gallery, Zürich, 2013
  • Josef Bolf, Arthobler gallery, Porto, 2011
  • The Wolf, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York, N. Y., US, 2010
  • Great Expectations, ZAK Gallery, Berlin, 2008
  • Death Is Not the End?, Moravian Gallery, Brno, 2006

Past sales

Painting

Next to Each Other

Josef Bolf
Next to Each Other
Painting

Through the faces

Josef Bolf
Through the faces
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