During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945), his family had to leave the Czech-German border region and moved closer to Prague, to Rakovník.

In 1961, he was accepted as a postgraduate student at the Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of the sculptor Vincenc Makovský and his sculpture Welder was selected that year for the Czech exhibition at the "Biennale de la Jeunesse" in Paris.

This achievement got him also a stipend which enabled him to study in France at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he took the opportunity and joined the highly regarded studios of Ossip Zadkine and Henri-Georges Adam.

Following his return from France, in 1964, Hanzík continued his postgraduate studies and simultaneously taught modeling to students of architecture of the Academy of Fine Arts.

During his long artistic activities, Stanislav Hanzík organized dozens of exhibitions and created numerous important sculptures.

Some of the prizes are: Stanislav Hanzík has also won prizes in thematic competitions associated with architect's implementations, e.g. 2003, the sculpture of the Czech national composer and song writer Karel Hasler at the Old Castle Steps, Courteous Dialogue in the Ursula Gardens, The New Stage of the National Theatre, Prague, The Lion Fountain of Carolinum, Prague, etc.