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Vladimir Pechar was born in 1931 in Pribram, Czech Republic, and since 1957 resides in Prague. He studied at the SOSV in 1964 under Professors J. Kaiser, J. Machelka and M. Uchytilova. In 1970, he became a member of the Society of Czech Creative Artists, later on, after twenty year long pause became a member of the Union of Creative Artists. V. Pechar is also a member of the Syndicate of Creative Artists in the Czech Republic.

The main domain of his work is portrait painting, whether it's done in the original form (using specific poly colored oil plaster to create the stratified low profile reliefs) he developed, or using any other traditional techniques. After dedicating several years to abstract art, in 1952 V. Pechar began to work on the compilation of 150 reliefs with ancient Egyptian theme, painted 50 large structural canvases of mythological symbols and portraits, and in the seventies started to create a 61 piece portrait collection of characters from Shakespeare's dramas. The outstanding figure in this impressive compilation is the one of King Lear. Simultaneously, V. Pechar also dedicated several years to produce expressionist canvases of Czech countryside and various musical themes.

In 1985, he began to study the fundamentals of the Czech history and during the following years created a gallery of forty mythical and historical figures -- Princes and Kings of the Lands of the Czech Crown (Knížata a králové zemí Koruny Ceské). His work was also influenced by his study visits to foreign countries, including several trips to Egypt, Asia, Canada and most of the European countries. He acquired a comprehensive collection of drawings, pictures and written materials during his travel, especially from Egypt, Vatican, France, Greece and Germany.

Vladimir Pechar displayed his work of art at many exclusive as well as many combined exhibitions in the Czech Republic and abroad. He also showed all his portrait collections and a large compilation of abstracts and landscapes. A completely finished collection Portraits of Czech Princes and Kings (Portréty knížat a králu ceských) has had it's debut in 1999. The art of Vladimir Pechar is proudly included in many private as well as public collections worldwide.

Vladimir Pechar displayed his work of art at more than 120 exclusive exhibitions in the Czech Republic as well as worldwide, and exhibited in several hundred of combined exhibitions.

Additional Work:

Memorial of Jaroslav Foglar, Ledec nad Sazavou - bronze relief mounted on a granite block
Bronze reliefs - commemorative plaque for A. B. Svojsik, the founder of the Czech Scouting - Prague
Memorial Plaques for Scouting victims of wars and communism, Prague
Memorial Plaques for sportsmen J. Bican, F. Plánicka and the writer J. Foglar
The pendant for Child Jesus of Prague ("Pražské Jezulátko") , Prague
Excerpt from the edition The face of William Shakespeare's drama (Tvár dramatu Williama Shakespeara) in The Shakespeare Birthday Trust, Stratford, England
Graphic prints of the Shakespeare's King Lear in The Folger Shakespeare Reading Society, Washington DC, USA
Portrait of King Lear in the Charles University Foundation, Prague
Excerpt from the edition The face of William Shakespeare's drama (Tvár dramatu Williama Shakespeara) in The Shakespeare Reading Society 1875, London, England
Collection of exlibris in the ExLibris Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
More than 2300 exlibris for the collectors worldwide
Various posters for the Antonin Dvorak Music Festival, Príbram
15 portraits in "Lexikon ceských panovnických dynastií" , Akropolis, Praha 1996
Painting Compilation "Staroegyptský portrét" in the book of Ch. Jacq "Great Faraons of Egypt" - Rybka Publishers, Praha 2002
The forth edition of extremely popular publication "Králové a knížata zemí Koruny ceské" (Princes and Kings of the lands of the Czech Crown) is in the current art context a very unique line of work. The artist is going back to an almost forgotten tradition of individual portrait painting of relatives, rulers, monarchs and kings, tradition that ended together with the old Europe as the new era of technical and social revolutions takes place. Pechar's gallery brings to life the old Czech kingdom and offers answers to such questions as who we are, and what are these lands of the Czech nation all about. All these men and women shown in his imaginary structural portraits lived their own lives that they fulfilled, just like all of us are trying to accomplish today. What is left after them is a strong heritage and eternal being of the Czech state as well as of the Czech people.