Karel Teige

Karel Teige

male, deceased (1951)
Nezval, surrealist, bauhaus, journalist, soviet, Marxist
Karel Teige was the major figure of the Czech avant-garde movement "Devětsil" (Nine Forces) in the 1920s, a graphic artist, photographer, and t...
Jaroslav Seifert

Jaroslav Seifert

male, deceased (1986)
Sonneteers, Charter 77, Devětsil, From Prague, Nobel laureate in Literature, journalist
Jaroslav Seifert (September 23, 1901 – January 10, 1986) was a Nobel prize winning Czech writer, poet and journalist. Born in Žižkov, a suburb of P...

Jindřich Štyrský

male, deceased (1942)
artist, editor, poet, writer, surrealist, painter
Jindřich Štyrský was a Czech Surrealist painter, poet, editor, photographer, and graphic artist. His outstanding and varied oeuvre included num...

Jaromír Krejcar

male, deceased (1950)
Paris Exposition, Jana Krejcarová, functionalism, expatriate, czech, functionalistic
Jaromír Krejcar was a Czech functionalistic architect, student of Jan Kotěra and member of Devětsil. He collaborated with Czech structural eng...
Josef Sima

Josef Sima

male, deceased (1971)
Le Grand Jeu, surrealist, artist, Devětsil, Documenta, czech
Josef Sima was a renowned Czech painter. He was involved in the Devětsil movement in Prague before travelling to Paris. He took French citizenship i...