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Last Name Svolinský / Svolinsky

Given Name Karel

alt. Names K. S. ; Karel Svolinsky ;

Marriage Marie Svolinský, born Veselá (1903-?), daughter of general František Veselý (1864-1953)

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Year born 1896 in Svatý Kopecek near Olomouc / Olmütz, Mor

Year died 1986

Place of death Praha / Prague, nowadays Czech Republic

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Education initially trained as a wood carver, 1920-7 studied at the Arts & Craft School in Prague w. profs. Zálesák, Kafka & Kysela

Country of Activity Czech Republic

Worked for J. G. Barton: Wild Flowers (Prague 1963) ; K. S. painted the murals for the Czechoslowakia room in the Pittsburgh Cathedral of Learning ; Astronomic Horologe in Olomouc / Olmütz, Moravia ;

Patronage since 1945 prof. at the High School of Arts & Crafts in Prague; Západočeská galerie (Plzeň, Česko)

Collaborators Czech Republic poet Karel Hynek Mácha (1810-1836) ;

Techniques botanical watercolour and astronomical mural painting ; mostly non-scientific or popular-scientific motifs; ink drawing ; designs of postal stamps

Sample(s) http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=15275&-max=25

Archival sources https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Svolinský & https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Svolinsk%C3%BD

Published sources Lawrence 1968: 232-3 ; Eva Balaštíková: Karel Svolinský (1896–1986) (2001) ; Národní divadlo a jeho předchůdci, Academia, Praha, 1988, str. 477-8 ; Český biografický slovník XX. století : III. díl : Q–Ž. Prague 1999: 233 ;

other K.S. was born in Heiligenberg near Olmütz, Moravia and educated in the Prague Hochschule für Kunsthandwerk under Max Švabinský (1873-1962)

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