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Karel Václav Klíč (sometimes written Karl Klietsch, 30 May 1841, Hostinné – 16 November 1926, Vienna) was a Czech painter, photographer, early comics artist, caricaturist, lithographer and illustrator. He was one of the inventors of photogravure (''heliogravura'' in Czech).
Klíč had such artistic talent that he was admitted into the Art Academy in Prague at the age of 14. For ridiculing school officials he was soon expelled, but eventually finished the school in 1862. Klíč worked as a photographer, caricaturist and illustrator in
Lambiek Comiclopedia article.
Biography (in Czech)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Klic, Karel 1841 births 1926 deaths People from Hostinné People from the Kingdom of Bohemia Czech illustrators Czech lithographers Czech caricaturists Czech comics artists Czech inventors 19th-century Czech painters Czech male painters 20th-century Czech painters 19th-century Czech male artists 20th-century Czech male artists
Karel Václav Klíč (sometimes written Karl Klietsch, 30 May 1841, Hostinné – 16 November 1926, Vienna) was a Czech painter, photographer, early comics artist, caricaturist, lithographer and illustrator. He was one of the inventors of photogravure (''heliogravura'' in Czech).
Klíč had such artistic talent that he was admitted into the Art Academy in Prague at the age of 14. For ridiculing school officials he was soon expelled, but eventually finished the school in 1862. Klíč worked as a photographer, caricaturist and illustrator in Brno
Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic ...
, Budapest and Vienna, all the time trying to improve the technology of picture reproduction. During a long night in 1877, while working with zinc relief etching, he discovered, by chance, a process leading to photogravure. He further improved the process in 1890, when working in England.
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Lambiek Comiclopedia article.
Biography (in Czech)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Klic, Karel 1841 births 1926 deaths People from Hostinné People from the Kingdom of Bohemia Czech illustrators Czech lithographers Czech caricaturists Czech comics artists Czech inventors 19th-century Czech painters Czech male painters 20th-century Czech painters 19th-century Czech male artists 20th-century Czech male artists