he was a member of the artistic council of the academy of fine arts in prague. in 1991, 1999, and 2003, he sat as the commissioner-in-chief of the prague quadrennial. he studied at the pedagogical faculty of the charles university from 1957-61 and then at the academy of fine arts, from which he graduated in 1964. in 1990 he became a teacher of the academy and was its president from 1996 to 1998.