About Josef Větrovský
Lived 1897 – 1944 (aged 46–47). Josef Větrovský was a Czech photographer and general contractor.
Josef Větrovský (1897 –1944) was a Czech photographer from Prague, a direct student of František Drtikol.
He died of a heart attack in 1944.
Life and work He photographed mainly portraits and nudes. In 1926, he took part in the exhibition of the Czech Photographic Society, which was supported by Josef Sudek, Jaromír Funke and Adolf Schneeberger. In the autumn of 1939, he organized his own retrospective, which was very valuable at the time. In the first half of the 1930s, he was a student of František Drtikol, and similar subjects, props, people and compositions appear in his photographs.
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Czech photographer (1897-1944)
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Josef Větrovský was born in 1897 in Prague.
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Josef Větrovský died in 1944 in Prague.
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Josef Větrovský was a photographer and general contractor.
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Josef Větrovský was Czech.
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