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About the artist:
Kylies was a Czech autodidact painter and illustrator. In his profession he was the Director of a marketing team.
He also was a trainer of the Sokol (means Falcon) movement which was a youth sport movement and gymnastics organization that played an important part in the development of Czech nationalism.
However the members were brutally suppressed and banned during the Nazi occupation.
Kylies was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 and was deported to the Terezin concentration camp.
One year after the liberation he died of the effects of his imprisonment.
All his correspondence, hand written memories and works of art went to the Museum of Slaný, Czech Republic.
So the lovely bookplates you'll find here are very rare. He did smoothly draw them in one step on the lithographic stone.
He also was a trainer of the Sokol (means Falcon) movement which was a youth sport movement and gymnastics organization that played an important part in the development of Czech nationalism.
However the members were brutally suppressed and banned during the Nazi occupation.
Kylies was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 and was deported to the Terezin concentration camp.
One year after the liberation he died of the effects of his imprisonment.
All his correspondence, hand written memories and works of art went to the Museum of Slaný, Czech Republic.
So the lovely bookplates you'll find here are very rare. He did smoothly draw them in one step on the lithographic stone.
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