At the age of thirteen, I was so passionate about art that I didn‘t want to do anything else.
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Milan Exner was born on April 8, 1948 in Vlašim. Since childhood he has been an artist. In 1963-1967 he studied at the Secondary Industrial School of Ceramics in Bechyně. He lived through the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops as a soldier on basic service in Tachov. Until 1974 he worked as a manager in the ceramic cooperative Keramo in Prague. Because he did not want to join the Communist Party, he left his job. From 1974 he worked at the Centre for Folk Art Production (ÚLUV). He and his wife worked first in the basement of her parents‘ house, and later built their own workshop, where they continued to work after the Velvet Revolution. Milan Exner taught for 13 years at the Folk Art School in Poděbrady. In 1981 and 1986 he won first prize in the national competition of the Centre of Folk Art Production and the Union of Czech Production Cooperatives for his ceramic table service. In 2023, he lived in Poděbrady and still devoted himself to his work.
