Václav Chochola
Czech, 1923-2005
- Born in Liben
- 1934 secondary school in Liben
- 1939 began his career photographing and reporting sporting events
- 1941 apprenticed to commercial photographers and studied photography at the State School of Applied Graphics at Smichov
- 1942 befriended photographers Karel Ludwig and Zdenek Tmej, beginning lifelong influence and collaboration
- 1949 became member of Czechoslovak Artists’ Union
- District Gallery at Olomouc, Czech Republic
- The Moravian Gallery in Brno, Czech Republic
- Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City, Mexico
- Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA
- Umeleckoprumyslove muzeum v Praze (Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague), Czech Republic