Josef capek biography death

First a painter of the Cubist school , he later developed his own playful, minimalist style.

Josef Čapek: Versatile Artist and Activist Early Life and Education.

He collaborated with his brother Karel on a number of plays and short stories; on his own, he wrote the utopian play Land of Many Names and several novels, as well as critical essays in which he argued for the art of the unconscious , of children, and of 'savages'. He was named by his brother as the true inventor of the term robot. Due to his critical attitude towards national socialism and Adolf Hitler , he was arrested after the German invasion of Czechoslovakia in He wrote Poems from a Concentration Camp in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , where he died in In the court officially set the date of his death as 30 April Contents move to sidebar hide.

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Josef Čapek was a Czech artist who was best known as a painter, but who was also noted as a writer and a poet.

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