Oldrich Kulh�nek (26. 2. 1940 - 28. 1. 2013) - world-famous Czech graphic designer, illustrator, stage designer and educator. Author Czech banknotes and a series of postage stamps. Awarded numerous prestigious awards.

Oldrich Kulh�nek was born in Prague, where he also graduated from the Academy of Arts. Studying in the studio of Professor Karel Svolinsk�ho ended in 1964.

He first exhibited four years later. His next career, however, was marked by persecution from the totalitarian regime, so especially in the seventies of the last century had a problem at all to enforce. The reason for the graphic caricature of Stalin and the socialist state system, for which even spent a month behind bars. Matrice to these sheets are still preserved after the Velvet Revolution and graphics published in the edition entitled Prohibiti.

Although the artists exhibited publication ban, he succeeded in 1971 to win the anonymous competition for a new ten-dollar bill. This, however, ultimately due to too vyzn�vaj�c�mu religious themes into print received.

In the same year Oldrich Kulh�nek exhibited at Nuremberg, but secretly under the pseudonym Ulrich B�hm. His work gradually became known in the West. In the eighties, thanks to the help of friends even illustrated several publications issued in Czechoslovakia.

However, the full of his work to the public to enjoy after the Velvet Revolution. Czech history came as the author of eight new Czech banknotes, when he won the competition announced by the then Czechoslovak State Bank. Among other things worked out well for postage practice a President Vaclav Klaus. Oldrich Kulh�nek received numerous awards at international exhibitions and biennials, and his work is represented in many international collections. By the end of life, he served as president of the Foundation of the Association of Czech Graphic Artists Hollar.