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Karel Václav Klíč (sometimes written Karl Klietsch, 30 May 1841,
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
Hostinné (german: Arnau) is a town in Trutnov District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 4,300 inhabitants. It lies on the Elbe river. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monum ...
– 16 November 1926, Vienna
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) was a Czech painter, photographer, early comics artist, caricaturist, lithographer and illustrator. He was one of the inventors of photogravure
Photogravure (in French ''héliogravure'') is a process for printing photographs, also sometimes used for reproductive intaglio printmaking. It is a photo-mechanical process whereby a copper plate is grained (adding a pattern to the plate) and ...
(''heliogravura'' in Czech).
Klíč had such artistic talent that he was admitted into the Art Academy in Prague
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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
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, Budapest
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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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.
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External links
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