Jiří Šetlík is acknowledged as the world’s leading authority on Otto Gutfreund. Dr Šetlík was born in Prague in 1929 and was educated at Charles University and the Institute of History of Art of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science, and later at the Institute of International Education in the United States. His posts have included Head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Gallery in Prague, Director of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, Vice-Rector and Professor at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, and Professor of the History of Architecture and Arts at the Technical University of Liberec.