Karel Havlíček

He was born in Berlin where his parents had moved from Vienna in 1903 because his father Karel started to work in the state theatres as a scene designer.

Karel Havlíček junior studied in Berlin and Prague Gymnasiums and influenced by his father and his friends (Cesar Klein, Pankok, Emil Pirchan, and Aravantinos) he was interested in art.

However his father persuaded him to study law at Charles University and after graduation he started a career of an official.

He found fulfillment in visiting natural museums, reading his favourite Kant and Schopenhauer and especially in drawing.

The communist regime did not allow to display his work and so he was recognized only by a few artists and writers, e.g. Karel Teige, Vratislav Effenberger or Ivo Pondělíček.