Litografi innrammet - La danse, 2002 - Franta (František Mertl)

La danse, 2005, 50 × 38 cm. Litografi av Frantsa (František Mertl). Innramming av god kvalitet.

František Mertl, «Frantsa» er en opprinnelig tsjekkisk kunstner som lever og virker i Frankrike siden 1960-tallet.

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Diverse verk av kunstneren til salgs/på auksjon

https://www.artsy.net/artist/franta/works-for-sale

Kunstnerens Wikipedia-side

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/František_Mertl

https://www.galerie-capazza.com/en/34_franta

Franta was born in 1930 in Trebic, Moravia, Czechoslovakia. His father left Czechoslovakia to fight Hitler’s troops in France, and then went into the English army. His mother stayed behind with her two sons, and was arrested by the Gestapo.

Franta dreamed of becoming a racing cyclist. His first paintings were inspired by track cyclists.

From 1948 to 1952 Franta studied at the school of decorative arts in Brno, then from 1952-1958 continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. In 1956 a study trip to the Academia delle Belle Arti de Perugia in Italy paved the way for his first contact with contemporary art, but also the works of Giotto, Mantegna and Masaccio, among anothers.

There he met Jacqueline, his future wife.

He made up his mind to leave Czechloslovakia and smuggled himself into the West across the East Berlin border. He stayed in refugee camps before reaching France, where he met up with Jacqueline and married her.

He stared to work in painting and sculpture in Nice, where he settled.

In a highly unfavourable context for figuration, his work was strongly marked by expressionism and neo-realism.

He has travelled frequently to black Africa (Kenya, Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Gambia), the USA, Denmark, Holland, Japan, India, England, Spain, Mexico, Germany, Portugal, Greece and Turkey.