Fates of Artists in Communist Czechoslovakia

The Pudil Family Foundation

Project of The Pudil Family Foundation and POST BELLUM o.p.s., named “20th Century Stories: Documentation and Exhibition of Artists’ Fates in Communist Czechoslovakia” aims at recording and looking into the communist period in Czechoslovakia (1948-1989) through personal life stories of artists (painters, sculptors, photographers, conceptual artists ) as well as at a public presentation of some of the stories and works of art gathered within the project.

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Joska Skalník

* 1948

A secret police agent, Dissident, Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Art and censorship and 4 more categories
24. 2. 1949 – Formation of the Czechoslovak Union of Youth, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia