Josef Čapek

Josef Čapek was born in Hronov, Bohemia, on 23rd March, 1887. He was a painter and writer. Čapek published several novels and a play, Land of Many Names. He also produced political cartoons for the Lidove Noviny, a newspaper based in Prague. An opponent of Adolf Hitler, he was arrested after the German invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Capek spent the war in a concentration camp and died at Belsen in April, 1945.

Josef Capek, Principles of German Education (May 1933)
Josef Capek, Principles of German Education (May 1933)
Josef Capek, Touha (1939)
Josef Capek, Touha (1939)