Vladimír Kompánek, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Slovak painter and sculptor
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Place of Birth: Rajec, Slovak Socialist Republic, Slovakia
About Vladimír Kompánek
- Vladimír Kompánek (28 October 1927 in Rajec – 20 January 2011) was a Slovak sculptor and painter.
- He won the Herder Prize in 1967.Between 1947 - 1949 he studied at the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava, then from 1949 - 1954 at the College of Fine Arts.His wooden sculptures draw ideas from the rural environment.
- Kompánek also creates the concept of "protective deities", symbols which appear in his works.
- symbols.
- A frequent motif he uses is a woman and field characters and carnival masks.
- He is also a maker of wooden toys.
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