František Kaván
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František Kaván was Czech painter and poet.

Kaván studied gymnasium in Hradec Králové
Hradec Králové
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, which he finished in 1888. During 1889 to 1896 he studied painting at the academy in Prague
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 under the guidance of Julius Mařák. He was a member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
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. He spent the end of his life in the area of Krkonoše, his birthplace. Kaván was a very humble and likeable person who had given away most of his paintings.

As painter he specialised in realistic landscape
Landscape
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s and created over 4000 paintings. He concentrated on mountain areas of Krkonoše and Vysočina.

Unlike his paintings, Kaván's poems were soon forgotten. He also translated literary works from Russian.

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