František Kaván, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

František Kaván

Czech poet, natural painter, painter and translator

Date of Birth: 10-Sep-1866

Place of Birth: Víchovská Lhota, Liberec Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 16-Dec-1941

Profession: writer, poet, translator, painter

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

František Kaván (10 September 1866, Víchovská Lhota near Jilemnice - 16 December 1941, Libun near Jicín) was a Czech painter and poet. Kaván studied at the gymnasium in Hradec Králové, which he finished in 1888.
During 1889 to 1896 he studied painting at the academy in Prague under the guidance of Julius Marák.
He was a member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.
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 a painter, he specialised in realistic landscapes and created over 4,000 paintings.
He concentrated on the mountain areas of Krkonoše and Vysocina. Unlike his paintings, Kaván's poems were soon forgotten.
He also translated literary works from Russian.