A painter and graphic artist, Jiøi Anderle was born in 1936 in Pavlikov, Czech Republic. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and went on to work as an actor and technician with the Black Theatre of Jiøi Srnec from 1961-1968.

Anderle has held virtually hundreds of one man and group exhibitions and has won numerous prizes at international biennials, such as the Ljubljana Grand Prix in 1981.
His works were exhibited in the Central Exposition of the Biennial di Venezia in 1982 and 1984.

From 1969- 1973, Anderle taught at the studios of Professor J. Trnka and Z. Sklenáø at the Academy of Applied Art in Prague and in 1986 at the Summer Academy in Salzberg.

llusion and Reality?Prints by Jirí Anderle, ?September 27, 2008 to January 4, 2009, Text from Retrospective Exhibition

In 2006, Jirí Anderle received a gold medal from the Czech Republic for his contributions to Czechoslovakian culture. Solidly trained in the tradition of the Old Masters, he looks to the past and the present as a source of wisdom in asserting, without cultural distinction, the continuity of human life.

His explorations of fundamental issues facing mankind determine the content and graphic character of his artworks that use the human body to visualize the soul. Focusing on issues facing humankind, he transcended his everyday political reality to explore human experience and survival—past, present, and future.

This retrospective exhibition of one-hundred works from the 1960s through the 1980s, selected from the Cincinnati Art Museum collection, explores three decades of printmaking executed with strength and will as a means of survival behind the Iron Curtain.