Jan Kotik | |
Birth Date: | 4 January 1916 |
Birth Place: | Turnov, Kingdom of Bohemia |
Death Date: | 22 March 2002 |
Death Place: | Berlin, Germany |
Nationality: | Czech |
Jan Kotík (4 January 1916 in Turnov, Austria-Hungary – 23 March 2002 in Berlin, Germany) was a Czech artist active from the 1940s.
Kotik was a member of Skupina 42 during World War II. Following the war his art was influenced by Chinese calligraphy.[1] In 1956 he attended the Congress of Alba and signed up to the Final Resolution of the Alba Congress.[2]
His son is the musician Petr Kotík and his grandson was Jan Jakub Kotík.