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Karel Černý

Karel Černý was a Czech art director, production designer, scenographer, architect, artist and teacher (1922–2014). He was born in Plzeň and died in Tábor.

Also recorded as Karel Cerny

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Biography

Karel Černý is recorded as art director, production designer, scenographer, architect and artist.

Karel Černý is recorded as having received Academy Award for Best Production Design, Artis Bohemiae Amicis Medal and The seal of the city of Pilsen.

The recorded working language is Czech.

Places of work recorded in the authority are Prague.

Distinctions recorded are Academy Award for Best Production Design, Artis Bohemiae Amicis Medal, The seal of the city of Pilsen and Czech Lion Award for Unique Contribution to Czech Film.

Catalogued output

Works

Their recorded dates run from 2001 to 2007.

  • S Royal Air Force nad Evropou. Žďáráci v letectvu krále Anglie

  • Tváře Vysočiny na poštovních známkách

  • Německý Brod na starých pohlednicích

  • Muži z londýnského vydání

    2007

  • Prostituce na počátku století / Karel Černý

    [2001] · Wellcome Collection

Dated record

Life and career

Explore 1922–2014

  1. 1922

    Life

    Karel Černý was born in 1922 at Plzeň.

  2. 2001

    Prostituce na počátku století / Karel Černý. is dated [2001] and held by Wellcome Collection.

  3. 2006

    Historia, medicina, cultura: sborník k dějinám nedicíny / Karel Černý, Petr Svobodný (editoři)., dated 2006, held by Wellcome Collection.

  4. 2007

    Muži z londýnského vydání is dated 2007.

  5. 2011

    Institution

    Factorisation breaking in diffractive dijet photoproduction at HERA? (2011) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.

  6. 2014

    Life

    Karel Černý died in 2014 at Tábor.

The full dated record · 6 entries

  1. 1922

    Karel Černý was born in 1922 at Plzeň.

  2. 2001

    Prostituce na počátku století / Karel Černý. is dated [2001] and held by Wellcome Collection.

  3. 2006

    Historia, medicina, cultura: sborník k dějinám nedicíny / Karel Černý, Petr Svobodný (editoři)., dated 2006, held by Wellcome Collection.

  4. 2007

    Muži z londýnského vydání is dated 2007.

  5. 2011

    Factorisation breaking in diffractive dijet photoproduction at HERA? (2011) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.

  6. 2014

    Karel Černý died in 2014 at Tábor.

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Places

Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.

  • Plzeň

    Birth place

  • Tábor

    Death place

Where the work is held

Collections

Karel Černý received Academy Award for Best Production Design, Artis Bohemiae Amicis Medal, The seal of the city of Pilsen and Czech Lion Award for Unique Contribution to Czech Film.

Factorisation breaking in diffractive dijet photoproduction at HERA?

Primary material

Documents and archives

Literature

Bibliography

Karel Černý (ed.), Jiří Šubrt: Historicko-sociologické reflexe, HISTORICKÁ SOCIOLOGIE, 2019. Karel Černý: Svět politického islámu. Karel Černý: Velká blízkovýchodní nestabilita: Arabské jaro, porevoluční chaos a nerovnoměrná modernizace 1950-2015, Czech Journal of International Relations, 2019.

  • FOR KAREL ČERNÝ, The Lesser Histories, 2022

  • Politické probuzení Blízkého východu, HISTORICKÁ SOCIOLOGIE, 2018

Citations

References

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