Jan Bauch was a Czech painter and sculptor. He was apprenticed as a wood-carver in his father's workshop. In 1914 he began to study at the School of Applied Arts in Prague. He graduated from the Academy of Arts in Prague in 1924. Bauch was first influenced by the Cubism of Braque and for a short time in the 1930s by Surrealism.  His  sculpture "Invasion of Czechoslovakia" (1939), produced together with the sculptor Jan Lauda (born 1898) -- was sent to the World's Fair in New York. Bauch's subject-matter involves childhood recollections, with religious figures and motifs from his father's workshop as metaphors of pain and sadness, reminiscent of the work of Georges Rouault.  He ranks among the most important Czech artists of the 20th century.
Reference:  The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art.