Czechs in History Josef Vachal - graphic artist and painter, designer of the Portmoneum
In early 1991 the Prague-based book publisher Paseka, run by Ladislav Horacek, acquired an old house going to ruin in the north Moravian town of Litomysl, with one intention in mind: to save the magnificent wall paintings within, which had been completed by the great Czech graphic artist Josef Vachal almost seventy years before. Rare wall paintings that were once brilliant in expressive colour, displaying an array of mystical characters and motifs which had been the artist's life-long obsession, now crumbling beyond recognition, threatening to go to dust. Publisher Ladislav Horacek, inspired by Vachal's work many years before, could not help but intervene. A landmark building saved, and the story of its creator Josef Vachal - both are ahead in today's Czechs in History.
Josef Vachal's painting, Portmoneum, Litomysl
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