Thomas Rajlich - Artist Info

About Thomas Rajlich

Name variants

Tomas Railich, Tomas Rajlich, Thomas Raylich
  • Biography

    Tomas Rajlich was a Czech artist who was born in an unknown year and studied sculpture at the School of Decorative Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He co-founded the Klub Konkretistu in 1966 and gained national fame in Czechoslovakia. Due to the Soviet Occupation, he left his homeland in 1969 and settled in the Netherlands, where he started teaching and found his vocation to become a painter. Rajlich's artwork style is characterized by his use of the grid as the measure of all things, and he often starts with a network of horizontal and vertical lines that he covers with loose brushwork. His painted surfaces are known for their exceptional feel for color, sheen, and substance of materials, and texture and structure predominate. ...

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