Karel Hájek (22 January 1900,

Lásenice Lásenice is a municipality and village in Jindřichův Hradec District in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 600 inhabitants. It lies on the Nežárka River. Lásenice lies approximately south of Jindřichův Hradec, ...

– 31 March 1978,

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) was a Czechoslovak photographer who was represented by Schostal Photo Agency (Agentur Schostal).Rebecca Madamba (2008) The Schostal Agency: A Finding Aid for the Schostal Agency Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Thesis of the Honours Bachelors of Arts, Studies in Arts and Culture, Concentration in Curatorial Studies, Brock University. Among his best known photographs is the one of

Klement Gottwald Klement Gottwald (; 23 November 1896 – 14 March 1953) was a Czech communist politician, who was the leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1929 until his death in 1953–titled as general secretary until 1945 and as chairman from ...

and Vladimir Clementis on a balcony in 1948 from which Clementis was later erased.

Gallery

File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-09018-0009, Schnelltriebwagen Berlin-Prag, Louis Fürnberg spricht.jpg, German writer

Louis Fürnberg Louis Fürnberg (24 May 1909 in Jihlava, Moravia – 23 June 1957 in Weimar, East Germany) was a Czechoslovakian-German writer, poet and journalist, composer and diplomat. He wrote the ''Lied der Partei'' ("The Party is always right"), the song t ...

giving a speech in front of the portraits of

and

Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secreta ...

File:Prague liberation 1945 konev.jpg, Soviet Marshal

Ivan Koniev Ivan Stepanovich Konev ( rus, link=no, Ива́н Степа́нович Ко́нев, p=ɪˈvan sʲtʲɪˈpanəvʲɪtɕ ˈkonʲɪf; – 21 May 1973) was a Soviet general and Marshal of the Soviet Union who led Red Army forces on the E ...

in the Liberation of Prague, 1945

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hajek, Karel Photographers from Prague 1900 births 1978 deaths People from Jindřichův Hradec District Czechoslovak photographers