A native of the Czechoslovakian town of Kostelec nad Černými lesy, she moved to Prague in 1958 to study at the Prague School of Interior Design and later the Academy of Performing Arts (Theater Department). She was a painter and ceramicist, and her poetry and prose regularly appeared in the journal Analogon. Most recently, her work has appeared in English in Surrealist Women: an International Anthology (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998) and Baradla Cave (Twisted Spoon Press, 2001).
Švankmajerová was married to the Surrealist filmmaker January Švankmajer, with whom she collaborated on such films as Alice, Faust, and Conspirators of Pleasure.
They had two children, Veronika and Václav, and lived in Prague until her death in 2005. Eva Svankmajerova at the Internet Movie Database
Obituary in The Independent (United Kingdom) by Marcus Williamson
Obituary in The Guardian (United Kingdom) by Christopher Masters
In Czechoslovakian
Zemřela výtvarnice Eva Švankmajerová British Broadcasting Corporation Czechoslovakian
Eva Švankmajerová (25 9 1940-1920 10 2005) Nekrolog.cz
Galerie online
In Slovak
Zomrela Eva Švankmajerová
In French
Eva Svankmajerova, femme qui a ressuscité le surréalisme
Décès de l"artiste surréaliste Eva Svankmajerova.
From 1970, she was an active member of the Czechoslovakian and Slovak Surrealist Group.