František Kyncl - Construction of the Infinite / Die Konstruktion der Unendlichkeit

     František Kyncl spent his youth in Pardubice, where he returned after completing his art studies and fulfilling his army duties at the Army Art Studio. In Pardubice he worked as a graphic artist in advertising, on his own art projects and co-founded the Young Ones Group. He had close ties with a group of young Polish artists, especially with Marian Bogusz, and participated in their symposiums in Poland. In 1962 he visited the former Soviet Union, where in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) he discovers the Russian avant-garde art and constructivism of the 20's. A few years later in 1966 he rganized, together with the Young Ones Group, an international symposium - Art Chemo in Pardubice. In 1968 he received official approval to visit Austria again from the Association of Czechoslovak Fine Artists. There, in 1969, he received a letter from his father informing him, that he has been sentenced in absentia to time in prison for leaving the country without permission. The same year. Frantisek Kyncl left Austria and moved to West Germany, at first to Essen where he worked as a labourer and later as a salesman of luxury carpets. After his solo exhibition in Essen, Professor Hoehme accepts him in his class at Düsseldorf Academy of fine Arts.

      He is one of the most significant characters of the Czech Constructivism and plays important role in the Czech Concretism Club. Despite his great handicap (he lost both his legs due to serious illness and was reliant to a wheelchair) he was continuously working and organizing things. He implemented several exhibitions and with his authority, he supported many other projects. At the turn of 20th and 21st century, he was counted as one of the leading representative of so called Düsseldorf Fine Artists Club.