Jan Jakub Kotík (October 22, 1972 – December 13, 2007) was a

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/ref> and rock drummer.

Life

''Jan Jakub'' was the son of composer

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and curator of contemporary art ''Charlotta Kotík,'' who emigrated to the United States in 1970.Zemřel výtvarník Jan Kotík, Masarykův potomek
/ref> His paternal grandfather was the artist Jan Kotik and his maternal great-grandfather was

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— first president of

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. ''Jakub'' was a musician and a visual artist. He played drums with the

Mommyheads The Mommyheads are an indie pop band who played from around 1987 through 1998, disbanded for a decade, and then reformed in 2008. Starting in New York City as the brainchild of singer Adam Cohen (who later changed his name to Adam Elk to avoid ...

, Beekeeper and Church of Betty, among many other bands in New York City at the time. He attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York City and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from

The Cooper Union The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (Cooper Union) is a private college at Cooper Square in New York City. Peter Cooper founded the institution in 1859 after learning about the government-supported École Polytechnique in ...

. In 2000, he moved to Prague, where he became a highly acclaimed visual artist. In 2007, he received the prestigious

Jindřich Chalupecký Award The Jindřich Chalupecký Award ( cs, Cena Jindřicha Chalupeckého) is a prize awarded annually to young visual artists. Candidates must be Czech citizens under the age of 35. History The prize was established in 1990 by Václav Havel, Jiří Kol ...

. On December 13, 2007, he died after a three-year battle with cancer.

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