Artist · Czech Republic
“painter”
1841
Hostinné
Czech Republic
publisher
1926
Vienna
Karel Klíč.
Czech Republic, 1841 to 1926
Karel Václav Klíč (sometimes written Karl Klietsch, 30 May 1841, Hostinné, 16 November 1926, Vienna) was a Czech painter, photographer, early comics artist, caricaturist, lithographer and illustrator. He was one of the inventors of photogravure (heliogravura in Czech). Klíč had such artistic talent that he was admitted into the Art Academy in Prague at the age of 14.
Biodata
- Born
- 1841, Hostinné
- Died
- 1926, Vienna
- Citizenship
- Cisleithania
- Work
- painter, publisher, graphic artist, caricaturist
Karel Klíč, in numbers
Sketchbook