I‘ve been really lucky that I‘ve always been in a good group, and I think that‘s the most important thing in life
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Václav Houf was born on March 30, 1949 in Brno-Královo Pole in a house built by his grandfather Václav Houf for his large family. After not being admitted to the Secondary School of Arts and Crafts, he studied textile design at the Secondary Industrial School of Textiles and the Faculty of Education at Masaryk University in Brno. He started working as a graphic designer at the House of Art. He prepared materials for exhibitions with the prominent non-conformist curator and theorist Jiří Valoch. There, he was contacted by the State Security Service (StB) and unsuccessfully persuaded to cooperate when they discovered that he was working with Ludvík Kundera on publishing Samizdat. After five years out of employment, he went freelance in 1978. As an acclaimed graphic designer, illustrator and set designer, he created countless film and theatre posters, collaborated with theatres, companies and many publishing houses and institutions. He participated in exhibitions and events of the Brno unofficial scene in the 1980s and 1990s. After 1989 he taught externally at the Secondary School of Arts and Crafts in Brno and at the Department of Art Education at the Faculty of Education of Masaryk University. For ten years he taught and headed the Graphic Design Studio at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Brno University of Technology. His works are represented in many Czech and foreign galleries. At the time of the filming, in April 2025, he was living and continuing to create passionately in his apartment in Brno-Královo Pole and exhibited in many solo and joint exhibitions in the country.
