Which We Shall Do by Oldrich Kulhanek
Which We Shall Do
Oldrich Kulhanek
Title
Which We Shall Do
Artist
Year
1968
Technique
etching
Image Size
18 x 11 15/16" platemark
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
22 of 25
Annotations
pencil titled, editioned and dated
Reference
illustrated: Recent Graphics from Prague / Corcoran Gallery, 1968
Paper
ivory wove
State
published
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
LERE107
Price
$500.00
Description
Which We Shall Do is a politically charged etching from 1968 with eight vignettes illustrating the tragedy of man under Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. Both Stalin and Lenin are featured but Stalin’s face is grotesquely depicted. This was among a series of etchings created between 1968 and 1971 that caused Oldrich Kulhanek to be arrested in 1971 by the Czechoslovak Secret Police and imprisoned in 1971. Several of the these prints were condemned as “ideologically dangerous” and were put on trial in 1973. Kulhanek spent a month in prison but his graphics were slated to be burned. Both the artist and his graphics outlasted the Communist grip on Czech society.