Background
Eva Fuka was born on May 5, 1927 in Prague, Czech Republic.
Eva Fuka was born on May 5, 1927 in Prague, Czech Republic.
In 1942, Eva Fuka attended the State School of Graphic Arts in Prague under Professor Rudolf Skopec, and later studied at the Academy of Visual Arts, from 1945 to 1950.
Maintaining her own photo studio for the past several years, Eva Fuka previously did freelance photography in West Germany and Switzerland (1972-1975). She worked in the photo studio at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in 1971-1972 and was a darkroom technician at K + L, Berkey Co., New York, from 1967 to 1971. She freelanced from 1952 to 1967 as well.
At the time of her death, Eva Fuka was retired and split her time between New York City, Prague, Paris and the French Alps where she spent her summers.
Eva Fuka died on 25 November 2015 at the age of 88.
((September 5 - October 14, 2001, Prague House of Photogra...)
2001
Eva Fuka married fellow-artist Vladimír Fuka in 1950, and gave birth to her only child, Ivana, in 1951. Her first husband died from diabetes in 1977. Eva Fuka married David H Engle in 1986.