Tout sur les oeuvres de FRANTA. Un artiste peintre, sculpteur, graveur français d'origine tchèque qui vit et travaille en France sur la commune de Vence depuis 1959.

Czech artist Franta is a contemporary painter using oil on canvas and bronze sculptor, specialising in figurative studies, is represented by Everard Read London gallery.

Through his art, the unacceptable invites us to revive the meaning of beings and their existence. Franta’s pictorial work thus inscribes itself within the legacy of the most lucid thinkers of his time, starting with Albert Camus.

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Czech artist Franta is a contemporary painter using oil on canvas and bronze sculptor, specialising in figurative studies, is represented by Everard Read London gallery.

Frantisek Mertl, dit Franta (né le 16 mars 1930 à Třebíč, en Tchécoslovaquie) est un peintre, sculpteur, graveur français d'origine tchèque. Il vit et travaille en France depuis 1958 ( Nice , Vence )

FRANTA (Frantisek Mertl, dit), peintre français d'origine tchèque (Trebic, Moravie, 1930), installé en France en 1958.

Frantisek Mertl, known as Franta (born 1930 in Třebíč, Czechoslovakia) is a French painter, sculptor, printmaker of Czech origin.

Franta is an internationally renowned French artist and sculptor, born in Czechoslovakia in 1930. He studied at the Prague School of Fine Arts before fleeing his homeland in 1958 to live and work in France. He has travelled all over Europe and spent time in India, Japan, Mexico, the United States, and above all Africa.

Franta, full name František Mertl (b. 1930), is an outstanding representative of figurative painting. A native of Třebíč and a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, he has lived in the south of France since 1958, when he adopted his artistic name Franta.