Jerome Jaroslav Klapka was born in Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) and was living in Chicago by 1902, when he enrolled in the Saturday children’s class at the Art Institute. Klapka studied there intermittently in the following years, as well as at the American Academy of Art. His most important instructors were portraitists Antonin Sterba and Wellington Reynolds.
Klapka apparently devoted the early part of his career in Chicago to commercial and advertising art. After working in Detroit (showing 500 of 2645 characters). |
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