Stanislav Hanzík (24 July 1931 – 12 August 2021) was a contemporary Czech sculptor. He is especially known for free sculptures, portraits, and realizations together with architects. 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 Pedagogical 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 worked until his death. At that time, Hanzík was working on sculptures which predestined the future orientation of his work, such as Simeon (Old Man and Child), the terracotta 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 awarded, 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 regarded 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. These first pieces were subsequently exhibited during the artist's first solo exhibition in the "Maison de la Culture" in Le Havre in 1963. More information...
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