Awarded Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, 1st class presented by Václav Havel (1991).
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Josef Čapek
Josef Čapek was a Czech artist who was best known as a painter, but who was also noted as a writer and poet. He invented the word 'robot', which was introduced into literature by his brother, Karel Čapek.
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culture · Czech painter and writer (1887–1945) · translator · painter · photographer · playwright · journalist · writer · illustrator · art critic · art theorist · scenographer · also Josef Čapek, Josef Capek, Joseph Capek, Čapek
Born 23 March 1887 · Died March 1945 · Q454568
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The court officially set 30 April 1947 as the date that he could not survive
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Career landmark: death in absentia.
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1945· 1 entry
Died 1945-03.
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1887· 1 entry
Born 1887-03-23.
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