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Konstantin Biebl

Died in 1951

Konstantin Biebl was born on 26 February 1898 in Slavětín, near Louny, the son of a doctor who took his own life at the Galician front during the war. Mobilised in 1916, he was wounded and captured on the Balkan front in 1918, then escaped. He studied medicine without completing it, joined the Devětsil group in 1924, travelled as far as Java, Sumatra and Ceylon in 1926 and 1927, and in 1934 was one of the founders of the Czech surrealist group. A communist since 1922, accused of formalism by the party weekly after 1948, he took his own life in Prague on 12 November 1951.

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