He is considered the only artist within pop art to also deal with religious topics (e.g. Stations of the Cross in St. Michael in Schweinfurt, Germany).
[3] Due to forced migration, he lost his German Bohemian homeland in 1946 after 18 months of child labor in the new Czechoslovakia.
[4] From 1957 to 1959, he worked as a teaching assistant and instructor at the University of California, Los Angeles, earning his Master of Arts degree in January 1959.
[5] In 1961, his cosmic installation entitled Unlimited Dimensions was displayed at the Martha Jackson Gallery, where it earned him the NYTIMES review "best show of the year".
In 1968, Gaudnek did his doctorate at New York University on the topic The symbolic meaning of the cross in the American Contemporary Painting.
The museum displays a collection of paintings, drawings, watercolors, collages, assemblages, objects, sculptures, printmaking, the Theater of the suitcase, and an archive of photographs and documents from the years 1949–2005.