Josef Váchal
Writer, Deceased Person
1884 – 1969
Who was Josef Váchal?
Josef Váchal was a Czech writer, painter, printmaker and book-printer.
Váchal was the illegitimate son of Josef Aleš-Lyžec and Anna Váchalová - his parents never married. He was brought up by his grandparents, Jan Aleš and Jana Alešová, in the southern Bohemian town of Písek, where he entered grammar school but left it prematurely. In 1898 Váchal moved to Prague, where he studied bookbinding and befriended his father's cousin, the painter Mikoláš Aleš. He was influenced by Art Nouveau during that time.
In 1900 he wrote his first poems, by 1903 he joined the Prague Theosophy Society, in 1904 he entered the Painter School and later became a respected painter and graphic designer. In 1910 Váchal published his first two books. Between January 1912 and January 1913 he enjoyed a short but intense friendship with the mystical Catholic writer Jakub Deml. In March 1913, Váchal married Máša Pešulová, and began a friendship with the collector J. Portman; Portman's house Portmoneum is now the Váchal Museum in Litomyšl.
From 1916 to 1918 Váchal served as a soldier on the Italian front.
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- Born
- Sep 23, 1884
Czech Republic - Also known as
- Josef Vachal
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- Died
- May 10, 1969
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on July 23, 2013
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