Zdeněk Daněk (*1977) is one of the most visible landscape painters on the current domestic scene. People can know his work not only from galleries, but also from postage stamps, comics or CD cover (cooperation with the Czech Philharmonic). He is especially successful with his open air, because he sees the landscape as a laboratory for painting, usually adds some extra painting challenge. In addition to "green paintings", for example, "various scenarios", in which it fights against its reasons and painting bad habits, and thus deliberately takes unsatisfactory brushes, paints randomly selected places or the image turns every few minutes; or "externalities" in which it comments on environmental problems and points to the absurdity of human behavior in relation to the environment.
As a landscape painter, he did not identify himself immediately. This happened only during his studies at Zdeněk Beran at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts (1999–2003), before he graduated from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design (1996–1999), where he was under the leadership of Pavel Nešleha (painting) and Jiří Barta (television graphics). From these studies it still tends to figural painting, portrait or animation. Sometimes he also focuses on the building. After his studies, he has become a common part of important landscape exhibitions: "In the shadow of trees" - the North Bohemian Gallery of Fine Arts in Litoměřice (2024), "Dialogues" - in the Prague Gallery of Kooperativa (2019), "Czech Landscape painting" - Liberec Regional Gallery (2005). Pardubice.
