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Joint Issue with the Czech Republic – Karol Plicka Issue number
427
Date of issue
12.09.2008
Face value
40.00 Sk
Sell price
0.67 €

© Slovak Post, 2008 Karol Plicka was the key Slovak cultural personality of the first half of the twentieth century. The founder of cinematography and a pioneer of photography, he was among the first Slovak photographers to base his work on a clearly formulated conception. Born in 1894 to Czech parents in Vienna, he became a professional musician. In 1927 – 1931 he studied musical folkloristics and ethnology at the Faculty of Philosophy of Comenius University in Bratislava. Following the formation of the independent Czechoslovakia, he joined Matica Slovenská [the leading Slovak national and cultural institution – translator’s note] to collect...

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