Czechs Today Ondřej Kohout: exiled artist who made Vienna his home
In this edition of Czechs Today, we talk to Ondřej Kohout, a painter and stage designer who left Czechoslovakia with his family in the early 1980s after signing the Charter 77 manifesto. He went to live in Vienna where he reunited with his father, the poet and playwright Pavel Kohout, who had been forced out of his country by communist authorities. In the Austrian capital Ondřej Kohout established himself as an independent artist, and since 1983 he has had more than 60 exhibitions in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany and other European countries. Most recently, Czechs have had a chance to see his work featured at exhibitions in Mikulov and at the Nová Síň gallery in Prague last year.
Ondřej Kohout
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