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Bohumil Kubišta
Bohumil Kubišta was a Czech painter, graphic artist, and art theorist, counted among the founders of Czech modern painting and a pioneer of Cubism in the Czech lands.
Emil Filla
Emil Filla was a Czech Cubist painter, sculptor, and art theorist, born in Chropyně in Moravia in 1882, a leading figure of Czech Cubism in Prague.
František Kupka
František Kupka, also known as Frank or François Kupka, was a Czech-born painter who settled in Paris and pioneered abstract painting, exhibiting the Amorpha series at the 1912 Salon d'Automne.
Jindřich Štyrský
Jindřich Štyrský (1899–1942) was a Czech painter, photographer, and leading figure of interwar surrealism, co-founder with Toyen of artificialism and of the Czech Surrealist Group in Prague.
Josef Čapek
Josef Čapek (1887–1945) was a Czech painter, illustrator, and writer who, with his brother Karel, led interwar Czechoslovak culture and proposed the word robot for the play R.U.R.
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, known as Witkacy, was a Polish painter, playwright, and philosopher, a central figure of the interwar avant-garde who wrote more than thirty plays.
Toyen
Toyen was the pseudonym of Marie Čermínová (1902–1980), a Czech painter and founding member of the Surrealist Group of Czechoslovakia, later active among the Paris Surrealists.
Władysław Strzemiński
Władysław Strzemiński (1893–1952) was a Polish painter, theorist, and teacher who created Unism, led the Łódź museum's modern art collection, and co-founded the city's art school.