František Drtikol

Abstract

František Drtikol was born on 3 March 1883 into the family of a shopkeeper in the small town of Příbram not far from Prague.1 Even though he had two elder sisters, he was a loner as a child, keeping aloof from his contemporaries and creating in his mind an imaginary world of his own. At an early age he displayed great skills in drawing and painting, to which he devoted himself, as he wanted to study at an academy of fine arts. His pragmatic father was, however, opposed to such a financially risky profession and, when Frantisek finished grammar school in 1898 with average results, his father decided his son should undergo an apprenticeship with a wealthy local photographer, Antonín Mattas.

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