Astronomical space artist Ludek Pesek was born in 1919 at Kladno, Czechoslovakia, and grew up in the mining town of Ostrava close to the Beskidy Mountains. At the age of fifteen Ludek acquired a painter's easel and began to practice his hobby earnestly. Later, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He produced his first art works around the age of 19. His first publications were The Moon and Planets (1963) and Our Planet Earth (1967). His work first reached US readers through the National Geogra
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