Attended secondary school in Jilemnice, learned love of photography from his father
Medical student in Prague from 1933 until 1939 when occupying Nazis closed schools
On recommendation from Professor Jaromir Funke, he studied photography at the State School of Graphic Arts in Prague, finished in 1943, where he became photography professor after the war until 1951 when he became a freelancer in Prague
Became member of the Federation of Czechoslovak Artists in 1949
Selected Public Collections
Capek Brothers Museum in Male Svatonovice, Czech Republic
The Krkonose (Giant Mountains) Museum in Jilemnice, Czech Republic
The Moravian Gallery in Brno, Czech Republic
Museum of Art and Design, Benesov, Czech Republic
Prague City Museum, Prague, Czech Republic
Umeleckoprumyslove muzeum v Praze (Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague), Czech Republic