Pavel Dias

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Pavel Dias
Pavel Dias 2013
Pavel Dias (2013)
Born(1938-12-09)9 December 1938
Brno, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Died19 April 2021(2021-04-19) (aged 82)
Prague, Czech Republic
Resting placeBrno-Tuřany
NationalityCzech
Alma materFAMU
Known forphotography
SpouseHilda Misura-Dias

Pavel Dias (9 December 1938 – 19 April 2021[1]) was a Czech photographer and university teacher. He was born in Brno and often spent his childhood in Brankovice. After studying at the Secondary school of Art and Design in Brno, where he met his later wife Hilda Misura-Dias, he continued to the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU), which he completed in 1964 after a short break.

He worked as a documentary photographer and contributed his photos to several magazines. In addition, he also worked at universities in Prague and Zlín, where he taught photography. He spent part of his life working in film, he devoted himself to advertising photography. In his documentary work, he used simple, easy-to-read compositions. Throughout his life, he worked on various cycles, which he continuously presented at exhibitions and kept adding to.[2]

Life and work[edit]

Dias was born on 9 December 1938 in Brno. His father did not report to him, his mother Věra raised him. As a child, he often stayed in Brankovice in south Moravia with his grandparents and relatives on his mother's side, who were involved in the anti-Nazi resistance during the Nazi occupation of the Czech Republic and imprisoned in a concentration camp. The mother ran a confectionery in Kroměříž, but after the communist coup in 1948, she had to close the business and worked as a saleswoman in Zlín.[3]

In the years 1954–1958, Pavel Dias studied photography at the Secondary school of Art and Design in Brno under professor Karel Otta Hrubý. Here he also met his later wife,[2] also a photographer Hilda Misura-Dias (1940–2019).[4] During his studies, he collaborated with a film studio in Zlín and helped to create the film Invention for Destruction directed by Karel Zeman. He also studied camera and photography for two years at FAMU and then worked as a photographer in Barrandov film studios until 1961,[5] when he returned to study art photography at FAMU, which he completed in 1964 as the first-ever graduate of this field.[6]

He contributed his photographs to the magazine Mladý svět from its foundation in 1959 until 1977. In the years 1964–1983, he was a photographer collaborating with various magazines. He mainly focused on advertising photography. In the years 1983–1988, he worked at the Secondary School of Arts and Crafts in Brno as the head of the photography department. In the years 1989–2009, he was a professor at the FAMU, in the years 2005–2018 he also taught photography at the Tomas Bata University in Zlín.[7]

Pavel Dias collaborated with film, photographed horses and horse races, concentration camps as Holocaust memorials, and created documentary cycles.[8] He implemented the Little Prince's Planet (in Czech Planeta malého prince) and Little Princes Messages (Poselství malých princů) projects to support children with hematological diseases.[9] In 2008, he received the Personality of Czech Photography award for long-term contribution awarded by the Association of Professional Photographers of the Czech Republic.[10][2]

He was the father of two sons. The elder Pavel (1961–1979) died young of acute leukemia.[11] The second son Marek (* 1964) works as a ceramicist and art therapist in Český Krumlov and Besednice.[12]

Pavel Dias died on 19 April 2021, in Saint Cross Hospital at Žižkov in Prague. The urn with the remains is kept in the family grave at the cemetery in Brno-Tuřany group 4, graves 255–256.[13]

Exhibitions (selection)[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Zemřel Pavel Dias – Divadelní noviny" (in Czech). Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  2. ^ a b c Dias, Pavel (2015). Dias : fotografie, 1956–2015 = Photographs, 1956–2015. Filip Láb, Karel Hvížd̕ala. Praha. ISBN 978-80-246-3017-5. OCLC 927294557.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ "Pavel Dias (1938–2021)". www.pametnaroda.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  4. ^ "Za Hildou Diasovou – Svaz českých fotografů" (in Czech). 3 September 2019. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  5. ^ "iFotoVideo – magazín o fotografování, digitálním videu, fotografické tvorbě a praxi – Retrospektivy Pavla Diase". 23 June 2007. Archived from the original on 23 June 2007. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  6. ^ "FAMU". 5 March 2016. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  7. ^ "Login – Portál". 13 July 2020. Archived from the original on 13 July 2020. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  8. ^ "Pavel Dias: Nejen o Paříži – PALADIX.cz". www.paladix.cz (in Czech). 13 June 2002. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  9. ^ "Pavel Dias". web.quick.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  10. ^ "Asociace fotografů". 5 March 2016. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  11. ^ Brázdilová, Jana (13 November 2017). "Vždy jsem fotil celospolečenská témata. A ta naše byla vážná". Universitas, magazín vysokých škol (in Czech). Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  12. ^ "Marek Dias". atelier-dias.com. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  13. ^ "Brněnské hřbitovy |". gis.brno.cz. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  14. ^ "2006-2004 – Benefiční galerie FONS". 19 December 2021. Archived from the original on 19 December 2021. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  15. ^ Potměšilová, Radka (9 September 2021). "PAVEL DIAS: TORZO – VZPOMÍNKY PRO BUDOUCNOST". Uměleckoprůmyslové museum v Praze (in Czech). Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  16. ^ "Výstava fotografií Pavla Diase do prosince v ČK". ČCE sbor Brno I (in Czech). Retrieved 10 November 2022.
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