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Birth
1890 (Prague, Czechoslovakia)
Death
1972 (New York City)
Lived/Active
New York / Czech Republic
Often Known For
cubist figure, landcape and still life painting
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Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Jan Matulka became a leading modernist
working with Stuart Davis to find a new type of Cubism based on
distortion of forms. The totality of his work ranged from
traditional to abstract, reflecting the changes in the art world of
20th century America.
In 1907, he came to the Bronx, New York
where he had a poverty-ridden childhood with a mother who tried to
raise a family by herself. From 1908 to 1917, he studied at the
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