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1950-1954 studied at the Higher Professional School of Arts and Crafts (VOŠUP) and 1954-1959 at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM); 1961 member of the progressive, avant-garde artists' group UB 12 (= Umělecká beseda 12 [Artistic Debate]). One of the grandes dames of Czech art, and an artist of international standing. During the period of "normalisation" she was not allowed to exhibit because of her oppositional parents. They had been arrested under the Communist regime and her father was sentenced to death, later commuted to a 25-year prison term. Numerous exhibitions and prizes in other countries, including the 1965 Biennale de la Jeunesse in Paris, and the 1976 World Print Competition in San Francisco; famous for her special, distinctive printing technique using, among other things, perforated zinc plates; 1996 destruction of the printing press in her studio in Řásnovka Street in Prague, from which she had been evicted under the pretext of redevelopment; thereafter, she turned away from printmaking and switched to other media such as drawing, embroidered flower compositions, and the reworking of old printing plates using, among other things, enamel paint to create new works of art.