{"title":"Capek, Josef","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJosef Čapek (1887-1945)\u003c\/strong\u003e was a Czech artist who was best known as a painter, but who was also noted as a writer and a poet. He invented the word \"robot\", which was introduced into literature by his brother, Karel Čapek.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eČapek was born in Hronov, Bohemia (Austria-Hungary, later Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic) in 1887. First a painter of the Cubist school, he later developed his own playful, minimalist style. He collaborated with his brother Karel on a number of plays and short stories; on his own, he wrote the utopian play Land of Many Names and several novels, as well as critical essays in which he argued for the art of the unconscious, of children, and of 'savages'. He was named by his brother as the true inventor of the term robot. As a cartoonist, he worked for Lidové noviny, a newspaper based in Prague.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis illustrated stories Povídání o Pejskovi a Kočičce (English translation as The Adventures of Puss and Pup) are considered classics of Czech children's literature. He also illustrated \u003cstrong\u003eModré Nebe (The Blue Sky)\u003c\/strong\u003e in a naive style.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDue to his critical attitude towards national socialism and Adolf Hitler, he was arrested after the German invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1939. He wrote Poems from a Concentration Camp in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he died in 1945. In June 1945 Rudolf Margolius, accompanied by Čapek's wife Jarmila Čapková, went to Bergen-Belsen to search for him. His remains were never found. In 1948 the court officially set the date of his death as 30 April 1945.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"blue-sky-the-1948-josef-capek-1887-1945-15-images","title":"Blue Sky, The 1948 - Josef Capek (1887-1945) - 15 images","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis charming children's book, written in Czech by \u003cspan\u003eFrantišek Hrubín, features 15 beautiful illustrations by Josef Čapek in a naive style.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download features 15 hi-res images, in jpeg format, that are all 600dpi and range in size from 3789 pixels wide\/tall to 6498 pixels wide\/tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you’d like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead more about \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/capek-josef-1\" title=\"Josef Capek\"\u003eJosef Čapek\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 15 images","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50998400090442,"sku":null,"price":2.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/Capek_Josef_1887-1945_-_The_Blue_Sky_1948_main.jpg?v=1751629741"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/collections\/Capek_Josef_1887-1945_036756c9-53bd-4a34-a914-4cd5edcb7e18-234813.jpg?v=1749183926","url":"https:\/\/www.publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/capek-josef-1.oembed","provider":"Public Domain Image Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}