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ID: 500115342 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500115342			Record Type: Person

Čapek, Josef (Czech painter, printmaker and author, 1887-1945)

Note: Czech avant-garde artist and author who combined expressionism and cubism in his work. He studied at the School of Decorative Arts in Prague from 1904 to 1910. He was a member of both the Group of Plastic Artists, and the Mánes Association of Plastic Artists. Also worked as a member of the Stiffnecked group and exhibited with them in 1918. He exhibited with Umlěcka beseda and co-edited the magazine "Zivot." Along with his brother Karel, he was deeply concerned with moral and social issues and vehemently opposed the Nazis. He died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during World War II.

Names:
	Čapek, Josef (preferred,V,index,LC,Dutch-P,NA)
	Josef Čapek (V,display)
	Capek, Josef (V)
	Josef Capek (V)
	צ׳אפק, יוזף (U)
	Capek, Joseph (U)

Nationalities:
	Czech (preferred)

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	critic
	painter
	printmaker
	author
	graphic designer
	designer
	scenographer
	writer
	illustrator

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Hronov (Královéhradecký Kraj, Czech Republic) (inhabited place)

Events:

active:

Prague (Praha, Hlavní Město, Czech Republic) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

student of ....	Dítě, Emanuel Prague School of Applied Arts
..................	(Czech painter, 1862-1844) [500129235]

student of ....	Mašek, Karel Vitěslav Prague School of Applied Arts
..................	(Czech painter, 1865-1927) [500157606]

student of ....	Preisler, Jan Prague School of Applied Arts
..................	(Czech painter and printmaker, 1872-1918) [500014295]

student of ....	Šaloun, Ladislav Jan Prague School of Applied Arts
..................	(Czech sculptor, 1870-1946) [500095945]

List/Hierarchical Position:

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Persons, Artists

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Čapek, Josef (I)

Biographies:


	(Czech painter, printmaker and author, 1887-1945) ..... [VP Preferred] (Czech painter, printmaker, author, critic, 1887-1945) ..... [BHA] (Czech artist, 1887-1945) ..... [WCP] (Czech artist, 1887-1945) ..... [WL-Courtauld] (Czech painter, 1887-1945) ..... [Grove Art] (artist, 1887-1945) ..... [GRL] (Czech artist, 1887-1945) ..... [MoMA] (Czech painter, 1887-1945) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

צ׳אפק, יוזף ........	[GRL]
......................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 50032568

Čapek, Josef ........	[BHA Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred]
.........................	BHA, Authority file (1973-)
.........................	Cubism, Constructivism, Form Art (2016)
.........................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
.........................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
.........................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 50032568
.........................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 15189

Capek, Josef ........	[MoMA, VP, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
..........................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..........................	Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
..........................	Oxford Concise Dictionary of Art and Artists (1996) 89
..........................	Witt Library, Authority files

Capek, Joseph ........	[RKD]
............................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 15189

Josef Čapek ........	[VP]
.......................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Josef Capek ........	[MoMA Preferred, VP, WL-Courtauld]
........................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
........................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Subject: ........	[BHA, Gallery Systems, GRL, Grove Art, MoMA, RKD, VP, WCP, WL-Courtauld]
....................	BHA, Authority file (1973-)
....................	Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
....................	Encyklopedie Českého Výtvarného Uměni (1975)
....................	Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n50032568
....................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n50032568
....................	Oxford Concise Dictionary of Art and Artists (1996) 89
....................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 15189
....................	Vollmer, Künstler-Lexikon 20. Jahrhunderts (1953-62)
....................	Wikidata online (2000-) Q454568
....................	Witt Library, Authority files


Note:
English	..........	[VP, WL-Courtauld]
	..........	Oxford Concise Dictionary of Art and Artists (1996) 89
	..........	Vegesack, Czech Cubism (1992) 324

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