Karel Klíč

1841-1926 Czech

Artworks: 100

Invented photogravure, mastered illustration

Karel Václav Klíč was a Czech painter, photographer, early comics artist, caricaturist, lithographer and illustrator. He was one of the inventors of photogravure (heliogravura in Czech). Klíč had such artistic talent that he was admitted into the Art Academy in Prague at the age of 14. For ridiculing school officials he was soon expelled, but eventually finished the school in 1862. Klíč worked as a photographer, caricaturist and illustrator in Brno, Budapest and Vienna, all the time trying to improve the technology of picture reproduction. During a long night in 1877, while working with zinc relief etching, he discovered, by chance, a process leading to photogravure. He further improved the process in 1890, when working in England.

Artworks by this artist (100 total)

Bilderbuch für Hagestolze Pl.003 1870s
Bilderbuch für Hagestolze Pl.053 1870s
Bilderbuch für Hagestolze Pl.072 1870s
Bilderbuch für Hagestolze Pl.081 1870s
Bilderbuch für Hagestolze Pl.020 1870s
Bilderbuch für Hagestolze Pl.063 1870s
Bilderbuch für Hagestolze Pl.077 1870s
Bilderbuch für Hagestolze Pl.080 1870s
Bilderbuch für Hagestolze Pl.098 1870s
Bilderbuch für Hagestolze Pl.019 1870s
Bilderbuch für Hagestolze Pl.045 1870s
Bilderbuch für Hagestolze Pl.059 1870s
Bilderbuch für Hagestolze Pl.071 1870s
Bilderbuch für Hagestolze Pl.046 1870s
Bilderbuch für Hagestolze Pl.040 1870s
Bilderbuch für Hagestolze Pl.096 1870s
Bilderbuch für Hagestolze Pl.086 1870s
Bilderbuch für Hagestolze Pl.052 1870s
Bilderbuch für Hagestolze Pl.060 1870s
Bilderbuch für Hagestolze Pl.010 1870s