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Karel Kuklk is a Czech photographer and one of the representatives of Informel in Czech fine art photography. He is classified as an artist influenced by abstract and surrealist tendencies and as an artist who creates works with a strong existentialist atmosphere. In 2000 he cofounded the photographic group esk devk.
Karel Kuklk was born in Prague. His father was a tailor, who was imprisoned for illegal activity during World War II. Young Karel spent part of the early 1940s with his relatives in a few places, for example in a village near Blank Hill. When he was about six he befriended Frantiek mejkal, who was the same age as him and who later became a notable art theoretician. At the age of fifteen Kuklk acquired his first camera and a year later he bought a 6x9 cm plate camera. It was also at that time that he became seriously interested in fine art and started visiting galleries. In the first half of the 1950s he saw an exhibition of paintings by Jan Zrzav, which made a great impression on him.
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