SEYDL, Zdenek: VYBORNYM SAZECUM V BRNE OD JEDNOHO MALIRE Z PRAHY.
Manuscript letter in pen on handmade pap. 228x348 mm, 2/2 pp. Envelope 134x204 mm.
Dated March 29, 1952 and signed. Attached silver bromide photo 66 x 50 mm. Signed on back in pen Zdenek Seydl. Stamp of photographer Vaclav Chochola.
Envelope with signs of use by normal manipulation. Loose sheet with text folded across and along, intact. Photo intact. Collector's condition. - Language: Czech.
<ID:RKP9665> Price: 2000,- CZK

Zdenek Seydl (April 29, 1916, Trebon, Austria-Hungary - June 17, 1978, Praha, Czechoslovakia)
Czech graphic artist, illustrator, painter, draftsman, typographer, costume designer, scenographer.
Study: 1932 - 1933, Statni graficka skola, Praha, prof. Jan Konupek; 1936 - 1941, Umeleckoprumyslova skola, Praha, prof. Frantisek Kysela.
Membership: Umelecka beseda, Sedm v rijnu, Sdruzeni ceskych umelcu grafiku Hollar.
Selected Collections: Alsova jihoceska galerie v Hluboke nad Vltavou; Galerie hlavniho mesta Prahy; Galerie vytvarneho umeni v Havlickove Brode; Moravska galerie v Brne; Umeleckoprumyslove museum, Praha; Narodni galerie v Praze.
Selected Solo Exhibitions: 1945, Zdenek Seydl, Graficky kabinet Leopold Mazac, Praha; 1949, Zdenek Seydl, Topicuv salon, Praha; 1954, Zdenek Seydl, Galerie Hollar, Praha; 1967, Zdenek Seydl, Kabinet grafiky, Brno; 1976,Seydl: Pokrm pro oci, kresleni a malovani, Galerie Nova sin, Praha; 1996, Eyhle Seydl, Galerie Hollar, Praha; 2016, Zdenek Seydl a knihy, DOX, Praha.
Selected Group Exhibitions: 1939, Sedm v rijnu 1939, Topicuv salon, Praha; 1943, Arnost Paderlik, Zdenek Seydl, Manes, Praha; 1946, Art Tchecoslovaque 1938 - 1946, Galerie La Boëtie, Paris; 1947, Moderne Kunst der Tschechoslowakei, Kunstmuseum Luzern; 1948, Graphic Art from Czecholovakia. An Exhibition in Great Britain of prints by members of The Hollar Society, The British Council London; 1950, Sdruzeni ceskych umelcu grafiku Hollar: Clenska vystava, Galerie Hollar, Praha; 1952, Ausstellung der tschechoslowakischen Graphik, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien; 1958, Moderne tschechoslowakische Grafik, Hamburg; 1961, Nejkrasnejsi knihy roku 1960, Vysoka skola umeleckoprumyslova, Praha; 1968, Ilustrace, Galerie Vincence Kramare, Praha; 1969, 50 Jahre der Tschechischen angewandten Kunst und industrial design, MAK - Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Wien; 1980, Rukopisy slavnych ceskych umelcu vytvarniku, Galerie Titanic, Olomouc; 1992, Book Design in Prague 1960 - 1990, Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, New York City; 1997, Mezi tradici a experimentem. Prace na papire a s papirem v ceskem vytvarnem umeni 1939-1989, Muzeum moderniho umeni, Olomouc.

Vaclav Chochola (January 30, 1923, Praha, Czechoslovakia - August 27, 2005, Praha, Czechia)
Czech photographer, publicist, collector, ...
Study: 1941 - 1945, Otto Erban Photographic Studio, Praha.
Selected Memberships: Cesky fond vytvarnych umeni, Umelecka beseda.
Selected Collections: Moravska Galerie v Brne; Muzeum Umeni v Olomouci; Svaz ceskych fotografu; UMPRUM Muzeum, Praha; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Gallerie Johanes Faber, Wien; Alan Klotz Gallery, Los Angeles; LACMA, Los Angeles; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Selected Solo Exhibitions: 1961, Vaclav Chochola, Kabinet fotografie Jaromira Funka, Brno; 1963, Vaclav Chochola, Divadlo Stanislava Kostky Neumanna, Praha; 1965, Vaclav Chochola: Fotografie z let 1940-65, Galerie Ceskoslovensky spisovatel, Praha; 1974- 1975, Vaclav Chochola: Osobnosti, fotograficke mozaiky a passiance, fotoarchiv, Kabinet fotografie Jaromira Funka, Brno; 1982-1983, Vaclav Chochola: Fotografie z let 1940-1982, Staromestska radnice, Praha; 1989 - 1990, Vaclav Chochola: Observation and Metaphor (Forty years of photography 1940's - 1980's), Jacques Baruch Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA; 1993, Svety, tvurci podnety a pratelství fotografa Vaclava Chocholy, Galerie Vaclava Spaly, Praha; 1999, Osobnosti Vaclava Chocholy, Galerie Franze Kafky, Praha; 2001 - 2002, Vaclav Chochola, Art...on paper, Lugano, Switzerland; 2003, Vaclav Chochola: Fotograficky archiv, Clam-Gallasuv palac, Praha; 2004, Vaclav Chochola: Fotografien 1941-1999, Städtische Galerie Erlangen, Germany; 2007 - 2008, Jan Zrzavy na fotografiich Vaclava Chocholy v letech 1944-1977, Galerie vytvarneho umeni, Havlickuv Brod; 2008, Maximalni fotografie: Vaclav Chochola: Nocni chodec / Night Walker, Zahrada Na Valech, Praha; 2013, Vaclav Chochola: 40. leta, Artinbox Gallery, Praha; 2019, Vaclav Chochola: Morava 53-88, Regionálni muzeum v Mikulove; 2020, Vaclav Chochola: Z Parize 1968–1969, Zamecka galerie Kladno.
Selected Group Exhibitions: 1959, Fotografie 1959: Vystava fotograficke sekce SCSVU, Galerie Ceskoslovensky spisovatel, Praha; 1963, Fotograficka avantgarda, Alsova jihoceska galerie v Hluboke nad Vltavou; 1966, Surrealismus a fotografie, Kabinet fotografie Jaromira Funka, Brno; 1967, 7 + 7, Fotografie, Galerie Vaclava Spaly, Praha; 1970, Cien grabados y cien fotografias Checoslovaquia, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte (MUCA CU), Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City; 1971, Ceskoslovenska fotografie 1968 / 1970, Kabinet uziteho umeni, Brno; 1977, Soudoba vytvarna fotografie, oborova vystava, Galerie Jaroslava Fragnera, Praha; 1980, Chochola, Ludwig, Straka, Tmej: Studie a zanrova fotografie 40. let, Umeleckoprumyslove museum, Praha; 1987, Aktualni fotografie 2 - Okamzik, Kabinet uziteho umeni, Brno; 1989, Co je fotografie / What is Photography: 150 let fotografie / 150 Years of Photography, Praha 1989, Manes, Praha; 1990, Review and Preview: 1990, Jacques Baruch Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA; 1992, Photos aus der Tschechoslowakei - die 30er und 40er Jahre, Galerie Carla Stützer, Köln; 1992 - 1993, Umelecka beseda 1992, Manes, Praha; 1994, Ceska fotografie 1989–1994, Manes, Praha; 1998, Moderni krasa. Ceska fotograficka avantgarda 1918-1948, Die Neue Sammlung: The International Design Museum Munich (Staatliches Museum für angewandte Kunst), München; 1998, Beaute moderne: Les avant-gardes photographiques tcheques 1918-1948, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC), Barcelona; 2002-2003, Vaclav Chochola: Salvador Dali, Egon Schiele Art Centrum, Cesky Krumlov; 2005 - 2006, Zivot veci: Idea zatisi ve fotografii 1840-1985, sbirka Siegert / The Life of Things: The Idea of Still Life in Photography 1840-1985, the Siegert Collection, Dum U Kamenneho zvonu, Praha; 2009, Tschechische Fotografie des 20. Jahrhunderts, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Bundeskunsthalle), Bonn; 2011 - 2012, Umelci Archivu, DOX, Mala vez, Praha; 2012, Element F. Fotografie a umeni ve druhe polovine 20. stoleti, Prazakuv palac, Brno; 2014, Kouzla zatisi, Atelier Josefa Sudka, Praha; 2015, Gen Chochola - Vaclav, Blanka, Marek, DOX, Mala vez, Praha; 2016, Zdenek Seydl a Narodní divadlo, Kavarna Nona, Praha; 2019, Angelo Maria Ripellino: Praha byla krasnejsi nez Rim (Pribeh ceske avantgardy), Museum Kampa - Nadace Jana a Medy Mladkových, Praha; 2019, Suppression, Subversion and the Surreal: The Art of Czechoslovakian Resistance, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA.