| Born in 1887, Josef Capek was a Czech abstract painter as well as writer and illustrator of books for his brother Karel Capek. Josef began as a painter in the Cubist movement, but from 1911 to 1912, he belonged to a group of avant garde artists who attempted to synthesize Cubist fragmentation with elements of Expressionism. Josef, however, began to develop his own primitive style of painting that borrowed from the simplicity graphic art. He was arrested in 1939 for his opposition to Hilter when Germany invaded Czechoslovakia. Josef died in 1945 in the Belsen concentration camp. |
