Karel hlavacek biography

Karel Hlaváček

Karel Hlaváček (August 24, 1874 in Prague – June 15, 1898 in Prague) was a CzechSymbolist and Decadentpoet and artist.

Hlaváček was born into a working class household in the Prague neighborhood of Libeň. He published his poetic works and art criticisms in the journalModerní revue (Modern review). Hlavacek poems were notable for their musicality and phonic homonymy,[1] and contained decadent interests of eroticism and decay,[2] particularly with the symbolic use of his aristocratic vampire attacking young virgins in the poem Upír.[3]

Hlaváček was also active as a sketch artist and created illustrations for the poems of Arnošt Prochazka.[4] He was and heavily inspired by Edvard Munch, creating hallucinatory drawings, both in Symbolist and early expressionist style, suggesting anxieties about sex and religion.[5] He was the founding member and the first president of the nationalist and athletic Sokol group in the Prague suburb of Libeň.

Hlaváček died of tuberculosis, aged 23.

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Karel Hlaváček (1887 - abt. 1956)

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Ancestors

Son of Josef Hlaváček and Anna (Krejčí) Hlaváčková

Brother of Josef Hlaváček, Anna (Hlaváčková) Juránková, František Hlaváček, Josefa Hlaváčková, Čeňek Hlaváček, Adolf Hlaváček, Hynek Hlaváček, Josefa (Hlaváčková) Kotlánová, Alois Hlaváček, Jan Hlaváček, Božena (Hlaváčková) Bělehradová, Žofie (Hlaváčková) Bílková and Gustav Hlaváček

[spouse(s) unknown]

[children unknown]

Died about at about age 68 [location unknown]

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Biography

Karel was born in 1887. He was the son of Josef Hlaváček and Anna Krejčí. He passed away about 1956.

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Karel Hlaváček: Translated by Václav Z. J. Pinkava

BIO

Karel Hlaváček(1874– 1898) was a CzechSymbolistandDecadentpoetandartist.  He published his poetic works andart criticismsin thejournalModerní revue(Modern review). He was also active as an artist, creating works that suggest his anxieties about sex, such as Exile. He was the founding member and the first president of the nationalist and athleticSokolgroup in the Prague suburb ofLibeň. He died oftuberculosisaged 23.

 

 

 

 

 

BIO

Václav Z. J. Pinkava was born in 1958 in Prague (Czechoslovakia, as it was then). He emigrated in 1969 to Britain, growing up there and completing his education at Oxford. He followed this with a career in IT management, latterly as a professional translator, having moved back to the Czech Republic in 1992 with his wife and four children.
Fluent in both English and Czech, he writes poetry in either language whenever moved to do so, but loves translating the poetic works of others; nearly 500 English poems to date.
He has published the first ever Czech rendi

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