Arachne
Vladimír Gažovič
(Biography)
Slovak, born 1939
- Born in Bratislava
- Studied at the School of Applied Arts, Bratislava, 1954-1958
- Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Bratislava, 1961-1967, with Professor Vincent Hloznick and later with Albin Brunovsky
- Began as an assistant graphics technician in 1967 and continued teaching (with exception of the two interludes listed below) at the Academy of Fine Arts, Bratislava
- Received von Herder Fellowship to study at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria, 1969-1970, and spent two months at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam in 1979
- Albertina, Vienna, Austria
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Bibliotheque royale de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
- Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
- Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington, USA
- Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA
- Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
- Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA
- Musee National d’Histoire et d’Art, Luxembourg
- Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium
- Narodni galerie v Praze (The National Gallery in Prague), Czech Republic
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA
- Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Princeton University Library, Graphic Arts Collection, Princeton, New Jersey
- Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
- Slovenska narodna galeria (Slovak National Gallery), Bratislava, Slovakia
- Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany
