Saudek biography

Jan Saudek is the world-famous Czech photographer.

He was born in Prague in 1935 into a Jewish family, most of his relatives died in concentration camps, he and his twin brother Karel were kept in the special children camp for twins. Both of them survived the war.

Jan Saudek (born 13 May ) is an art photographer and painter.

Jan Saudek is an art photographer and painter.

Jan Saudek (Czech, born ) His compositions evoke the dramatic tableaus of early photography, with subjects artificially posed in front of the viewer.

Kája Saudek (born Karel Saudek; – 26 June ) was a Czech comics illustrator and graphic artist.

Born in Prague in , Saudek studied at the School for Industrial Photography in Prague () and subsequently worked various jobs.

Karel later became a famous comix drawer.

Jan studied a graphic school, and was slowly becoming a photographer. He went to the army for the obligatory service, then he got married, had two kids and in late 1960´s, when there was quite liberate atmosphere in Czechoslovakia, visited the U.S.A.

and had there an exhibition of his works.

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But when he returned to Prague, he was forced to work in half illegality, because the official authorities did not favor the free spirit his works. He got divorced, in 1972 discovered his famous “wall”, which he then used as a background for the most of his famous pictures.

In the late 1970s he became widely recognized i