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Adolf Hoffmeister

Died in 1973

Adolf Hoffmeister was born on 15 August 1902 in Prague, the son of a lawyer, and at the age of eighteen was one of the founders of the Devětsil group. A doctor of law in 1925, a partner in his father's practice, he was also a caricaturist, illustrator, poet and journalist. He took refuge in France in 1939, was interned, then held in Morocco, and reached the United States in 1941, where he worked for the Voice of America. Ambassador in Paris from 1948 to 1951, a professor at the School of Decorative Arts in Prague, he was barred from all public activity after 1970 and died on 24 July 1973 in Říčky.

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