Karel Havlíček

:''See also the journalist Karel Havlíček Borovský'' Karel Havlíček (October 31, 1907 in Berlin – December 25, 1988 in

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) was a Czech painter. He was born in Berlin where his parents had moved from Vienna in 1903 because his father Karel started to work in the state theatres as a scene designer. They moved to Czechoslovakia in 1923 and his father entered the Prague National Theatre as a stage setter. Karel Havlíček junior studied in Berlin and Prague Gymnasiums and influenced by his father and his friends ( Cesar Klein, Pankok, Emil Pirchan, and Aravantinos) he was interested in art. However his father persuaded him to study law at

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and after graduation he started a career of an official. In 1946 he moved to

and started to work in the Thun porcelain factory in Klášterec nad Ohří. Since 1955 he changed various hard manual jobs. He found fulfillment in visiting natural museums, reading his favourite Kant and Schopenhauer and especially in drawing. He drew a picture every day for tens of years. The communist regime did not allow to display his work and so he was recognized only by a few artists and writers, e.g. Karel Teige,

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or Ivo Pondělíček. Several exhibitions took place in Germany and Austria thanks to his friend Gotthard Schwinge. The municipal gallery in Kadaň is named after him. {{DEFAULTSORT:Havlicek, Karel 1907 births 1988 deaths 20th-century Czech painters Czech male painters Painters from Berlin German emigrants to Czechoslovakia 20th-century Czech male artists Charles University alumni