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Jan Konůpek (1883 – 1950) was a Czech painter, illustrator and printmaker. His list of graphic works includes 1448 works and over 600 book illustrations. Read the full biography

Jan Konůpek (1883 – 1950) was a Czech painter, illustrator and printmaker. His list of graphic works includes 1448 works and over 600 book illustrations. He is considered among the three greatest Czechoslovak artists of the interwar period together with František Kobliha and František Drtikol.
From 1903 to 1906, he studied architecture at the Prague Polytechnic Institute, but under the influence of Pavel Janák and Václav Vilém Štech, he switched to art. From 1906 to 1908, he studied in the studio of professor Maximilian Pirner.
As one of the founding members of Sursum, a second-generation Czech group of the Symbolist movement, Konůpek drew inspiration from medieval mysticism and Gothic and Baroque architecture. His early twentieth-century works, influenced by symbolism and Gustav Klimt, are considered his best.