🎤 Alex Beran

About

Alex Beran (born 1923 in Liberec) is a Czech painter and graphic artist who has lived and worked in Liberec since 1948. He became known above all for his distinctive, deeply personal depictions of the Jizerské hory landscape. Rather than painting the mountains wholesale, he picks out fragments - typically tree trunks - and develops them further through his own imagination. His early work also includes the photographic cycle Zlínské odpoledne (1943), a surrealist record of the vanishing pre-Baťa Zlín.