František Drtikol (Biography)

Czech, 1883-1961
  • Born in Pribram
  • Left school to become an apprentice at photography studio of Antonin Mattas, 1898-1903
  • Student at Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt fur Photographie, Munich, 1901-1903
  • Became member of Czech Club of Amateur Photographers in 1911
Selected Public Collections
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  • George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, New York, USA
  • Gallery of Frantisek Drtikol, Pribram, Czech Republic
  • The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
  • Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA
  • National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
  • Umeleckoprumyslove muzeum v Praze (Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague), Czech Republic