Aleš Veselý, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Aleš Veselý

Czech graphic, sculptor and university educator

Date of Birth: 03-Feb-1935

Place of Birth: Čáslav, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 14-Dec-2015

Profession: painter, pedagogue, sculptor, university teacher

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Aleš Veselý (February 3, 1935 – December 14, 2015) was a Czech sculptor.
He was born in Cáslav.
From 1952 to 1958, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.
At the end of the 1950, he was part of the art movement known as the Czech Abstraction.
More recently, he worked on monumental sculptures, often connected with a specific landscape.
He sculpted in welded metal, exploring the tension of the masses and the activity of the elementary forces contained in the material.