page_title: Stanislav Hanzík
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Stanislav Hanzík / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Stanislav Hanzik with his wife Kveta († 2012) in front of his studio in Krizatky in the Ore Mountains
context_page_description: Stanislav Hanzík is a contemporary Czech sculptor. He is especially known for free sculptures, portraits, and realizations together with architects.
context_section_description: Stanislav Hanzík was born in Most - an industrial city in the northern Czech Republic (until 1993 Czechoslovakia). During the Nazi occupation (1938-1945) his family had to leave the Czech/German border region and moved closer to Prague, to Rakovnik. Here Stanislav entered the Gymnasium (equivalent to a high school) and created his first colored terracottas. He returned to Most in 1945 and made the acquaintance of his future wife Kveta (she died in 2012). After a year's study at the Padagogical Faculty of Charles University in Prague, under the tutelage of Czech sculptor Karel Lidický, he enrolled in studies at the Academy of Fine Art in Prague under the well-known Czech sculptor Jan Lauda. Hanzík graduated in 1956 and was given the opportunity for another year's honorary study at the same school. In 1957, he rented part of a house in Malá Strana, one of the historic districts of Prague, and established there his studio where he works to this day.
  At that time, Hanzík was working on sculptures which predestined the future orientation of his work, such as Simeon (Old Man and Child), the terra cotta sculpture Gorgona-Hiroshima, Welder, and Miner. He began presenting his work in 1959 at exhibitions held by the North Bohemian Branch of the Union of Fine Artists. In 1961, he was accepted as a postgraduate student at the Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of the sculptor Vincenc Makovský and his sculpture Welder was selected that year for the Czech exhibition at the "Biennale de la Jeunesse" in Paris. Hanzík was awardet, in direct international competition, the main sculpture prize. This achievement got him also a stipend which enabled him to study in France at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris where he took the opportunity and joined the highly regardet studios of Ossip Zadkine and Henri Georges Adam. In Hanzík's own studio in Paris, he began by now large series of dialogues and torsos. This first pieces were subsequently exposed during the artist's first solo exhibition in the "Maison de la Culture" in Le Havre in 1963.
  After the return from France, in 1964, Hanzík continued his postgraduate studies and simultaneously taught modeling to students of architecture of the Academy of fine Arts. He held solo exhibitions in the Czech cities, such as Litoměřice, Ostrava, Hradec Králové, Jičín, and elsewhere. The great success had particularly his exhibition in Prague - at the "New Hall Gallery" in 1967. In this year, he accepted an offer from Karel Lidický to become his assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1970, Hanzík was habilitated a privat docent. In 1991-1996 Hanzík taught at the University of Ostrava. From 1996 Hanzík devote his entiery time to his sculptor's work.
  During his long artistic activities, Stanislav Hanzík organized dozens of exhibitions and created numerous important sculptures. These can be seen in places such as the romonesque chapel of St. Georg on the Czech Říp Mountain, in the Czech National Theater, in front of Carolinum - in the Old Town of Prague, on the Old Stairs of Prague Castle, etc. Significant is Hanzík's work for the Northern Bohemia.
  Hanzík's sculptures decorate many interiors and public places of numbers of towns.
caption: Stanislav Hanzík with his wife Květa in front of their house in Křižátky - Ore Mountains in 2012
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