Pravoslav Sovak is currently one of the most important European artists creating prints and drawings. His use of graphic techniques, applying them in an innovative manner to express a hitherto unknown pictorial language, has won him international recognition. His fascinating work has been shown in the most important museums and galleries in Europe and the United States. The extensive retrospective of his work, beginning in Duren, will continue on to Regensburg before being shown in St. Petersburg, and, finally, in Munich. Pravoslav Sovak is not only presented as the creator of drawings and prints, but above all as an impressive painter and photographer whose works span, in the truest sense, a network of diverse existential levels and worlds of memory to fuse an aesthetic entity of place and time.

Bohemia, born artist Pravoslav Sovak (*1926) is one of the outstanding, artists of his generation. The supreme way in which Sovak uses all kinds of graphic techniques has brought forth a unique art that has been exhibited in museums and galleries all Over the world.

This monograph with essays by Vincent Gille. Werner Hofmann, Thomas M. Messer. Ursula Maria Probst, Hans-Peter Riese and Werner Schmalenbach pays homage to Sovak's oeuvre.

Foreword by the Curator

Foreword

Pravoslav Sovak - A Biography

HANS-PETER RIESE

Pravoslav Sovak

The Reversibility of Time

WERNER SCHMALENBACH

Indirect Messages

VINCENT GILLE

Museums

THOMAS M. MESSER

Pravoslav Sovak

URSULA MARIA PROBST

The Cartographer of Intervals

WERNER HOFMANN

The most outrageous fabrications are quotes

URSULA MARIA PROBST

How visible is reality?

WERNER HOFMANN

Visit at Heinrich B611's on March 14th 1978

Authors

List of illustrated works

Exhibitions

Bibliography