Lubomír Přibyl (born 27 June 1937,írPř Prague) is a Czech painter and printmaker.
Life
In 1952-1957 he graduated from the Václav Hollar Secondary Art School, where he was taught by Prof. Zdeněk Balaš, Karel Müller and Karel Tondl. In 1957 he passed the entrance examination to the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (prof. Vlastimil Rada), but the academic teaching did not satisfy him and after a year of study he was expelled for lack of interest. Among his classmates were the creators of Czech informel, who influenced him in his choice of non-traditional art materials.
In 1959 he met Jiří Kolář and Běla Kolářová. For the next two years he worked in the promotional department of the ČKD Devices factory in Vysočany, where he met Vladimír Boudník and Josef Hampl. He first exhibited solo in 1959 at the Rokoko Theatre and in the same year with V. Boudník in the ČKD factory canteen. During his employment at the factory, he had the opportunity to visit the regime's heavily guarded testing room in Běchovice, equipped with high-voltage generators. Lubomír Přibyl then became more deeply interested in light phenomena, physical and geometrical laws and technology.
In 1961, together with V. Boudník, J. Istler and R. Fremund participated in the Ljubljana Biennial, where his graphic sheet from the Mythy series was selected for publication by the International Graphic Arts Society in New York. In Prague, Přibyl was visited by foreign gallerists from Paris, Baden-Baden and Curaçao in the Netherlands and invited to exhibit his work. In 1963 he became a member of the Hollar Society. From 1964 he participated in exhibitions at the Pratt Graphic Art Center in New York. He won an award at the 1963 Ljubljana Biennial and his prints from the 1965 Biennial were purchased by the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. In late 1964, Pribyl's group exhibition was held at the Fronta Gallery in Prague.
In 1966-1968 he was represented in Prague by Galerie Platýz (Ludmila Vachtová) and in Germany by Klaus Staeck, who published several of his prints and exhibited Pribyl's works in galleries in Mannheim and Heidelberg. In Paris, Galerie Lambert and Galerie Arnaud exhibited his works, and in the USA, since the 1960s, Jacques Baruch Gallery, Chicago. In 1968 he exhibited at the Biennial in Buenos Aires. The International Graphic Arts Society in New York published another of Pribyl's prints and the Pratt Graphic Art Center offered him a solo exhibition.
After the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, he lost the opportunity to exhibit in Czechoslovakia, but was invited to exhibit abroad and participated in exhibitions of Czech graphic art organized by Czech curators in exile (Arsén Pohribný, Libuše Brožková). In 1982 the publisher Limited Edition in New York published his graphic sheet. In the early 1980s, Pribyl participated in three unofficial exhibitions in Brno (curated by J. Valoch), OKD Prague 9 (curated by A. Potůčková) and the Jazz Section (Krabičky, curated by Joska Skalník). In 1989 he had a solo exhibition at the Institute of macromolecular chemistry of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Petřiny (curator Jiří Šetlík).
After 1989 Lubomír Pribyl exhibited regularly at home and abroad, since 1998 also with the re-established Concretist's Club. His retrospective exhibitions have been organized by Gallery of Fine Arts in Cheb (2001), Regional Gallery in Liberec (2005), Gallery of Modern Art in Hradec Králové (2011), Brno Gallery CZ (2011) and Topičův klub, Prague (2012).