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1909 Prague, Czechoslavakia - 2006 Tabor, Czechoslavakia. Known for: Abstract image painting, graphics, collage and photography, teaching.
Karel Valter (February 17, 1909, Ceské Budejovice - November 17, 2006, Tábor) was a Czech painter, graphic artist, pedagogue, member of the SCVU. Karel Valter was born into an innkeeper's family in... Read full biography
Karel Valter (February 17, 1909, Ceské Budejovice - November 17, 2006, Tábor) was a Czech painter, graphic artist, pedagogue, member of the SCVU. Karel Valter was born into an innkeeper's family in the Linz suburb of Ceské Budejovice. He had a musical talent and at a young age he sometimes played... Read full biography
Karel Valter (February 17, 1909, Ceské Budejovice - November 17, 2006, Tábor) was a Czech painter, graphic artist, pedagogue, member of the SCVU. Karel Valter was born into an innkeeper's family in the Linz suburb of Ceské Budejovice. He had a musical talent and at a young age he sometimes played the organ in the church of St. Jan Nepomucký. In the years 1924–1928 he studied drawing and mathematics at the local Teachers' Institute and in the years 1933-1935 another 4 semesters at the University... Read full biography
Karel Valter (February 17, 1909, Ceské Budejovice - November 17, 2006, Tábor) was a Czech painter, graphic artist, pedagogue, member of the SCVU. Karel Valter was born into an innkeeper's family in the Linz suburb of Ceské Budejovice. He had a musical talent and at a young age he sometimes played the organ in the church of St. Jan Nepomucký. In the years 1924–1928 he studied drawing and mathematics at the local Teachers' Institute and in the years 1933-1935 another 4 semesters at the University of Education in Prague. He began his pedagogical career in 1928 as a teacher of mathematics, drawing and spelling at a school in Ceské Velenice. In Ceské Velenice, Valter met Josef Bartuška, who in 1931 brought him to the avant-garde South Bohemian... Read full biography
Karel Valter (February 17, 1909, Ceské Budejovice - November 17, 2006, Tábor) was a Czech painter, graphic artist, pedagogue, member of the SCVU. Karel Valter was born into an innkeeper's family in the Linz suburb of Ceské Budejovice. He had a musical talent and at a young age he sometimes played the organ in the church of St. Jan Nepomucký. In the years 1924–1928 he studied drawing and mathematics at the local Teachers' Institute and in the years 1933-1935 another 4 semesters at the University of Education in Prague. He began his pedagogical career in 1928 as a teacher of mathematics, drawing and spelling at a school in Ceské Velenice. In Ceské Velenice, Valter met Josef Bartuška, who in 1931 brought him to the avant-garde South Bohemian art group Linie (the group followed Czech poetics, as well as some impulses of surrealism). Here Valter soon attracted attention with his... Read full biography
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Karel Valter (February 17, 1909, Ceské Budejovice - November 17, 2006, Tábor) was a Czech painter, graphic artist, pedagogue, member of the SCVU. Karel Valter was born into an innkeeper's family in the Linz suburb of Ceské Budejovice. He had a musical talent and at a young age he sometimes played the organ in the church of St. Jan Nepomucký. In the years 1924–1928 he studied drawing and mathematics at the local Teachers' Institute and in the years 1933-1935 another 4 semesters at the University of Education in Prague. He began his pedagogical career in 1928 as a teacher of mathematics, drawing and spelling at a school in Ceské Velenice.
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