Pavel Brázda was born on 21 August 1926 in Brno. Here, in 1943, he founded his style called “hominism” – art about people and for the people. After studying two semesters of Philosophy and History of Art at the Masaryk University in Brno and another two semesters at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, from which he was expelled for lack of interest in his studies, he entered the third semester at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 1947. In 1948, he met painter Věra Nováková here, the woman who was to become his wife and who he lives with up until today. At the beginning of 1949, they were both expelled from all studies for political reasons and he was sent to work as an apprentice house painter. Between 1950 and 1952, the two of them, already married, studied and graduated from the Higher Professional School of Applied Art in Prague, a high school with morning and evening classes. They were then both allowed to make a living as decorative artists, working in the area of applied arts and crafts. They were never members of the Czechoslovak, later Czech Union of Visual Artists and never even applied for a membership. In 1959, their daughter Kateřina was born. For 10 years starting with 1977, Brázda worked as a stoker in a coal boiler room, he retired in 1987. He didn’t begin exhibiting his art as a regular, acknowledged artist until the 1990’s.

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