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Appel, Karel

(Encyclopedia)Appel, Karel kä´rl äp´l [key], 1921–2006, Dutch painter. A member of CoBrA, the European group of the late 1940s to early 1950s allied with abstract expressionism, Appel reacted against the ...

Dujardin, Karel

(Encyclopedia)Dujardin, Karel kär´l düzhärdN´ [key], 1622–78, Dutch painter and etcher. He studied with Berchem and in Italy. Dujardin was particularly successful in painting landscapes with figures and ...

apek, Karel

(Encyclopedia)apek, Karel kä´rl chä´pk [key] 1890–1938, Czech playwright, novelist, and essayist. He is best known as the author of two brilliant satirical plays—R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots, 1...

Mácha, Karel Hynek

(Encyclopedia)Mácha, Karel Hynek kä´rel h´nk mä´khä [key], 1810–36, Czech romantic poet. After studying law at the Univ. of Prague he became a civil servant. He published a number of promising poems an...

Mander, Karel van

(Encyclopedia)Mander, Karel van kä´rl vän män´dr [key], 1548–1606, Flemish painter and humanist. He wrote plays on biblical themes and translated from the classics. He is known primarily for his biograph...

Woestijne, Karel van de

(Encyclopedia)Woestijne, Karel van de kä´rl vän d voo´stn [key], 1878–1929, Flemish symbolist poet and novelist. He also had some reputation as a painter. He worked for a time as journalist and from...

apek, Josef

(Encyclopedia)apek, Josef yô´sfchä´pk [key], 1887–1945, Czech writer and painter. He collaborated with his brother Karel on a number of plays and short stories. On his own he wrote the utopian play Land...

Deyssel, Lodewijk van

(Encyclopedia)Deyssel, Lodewijk van l´dvk vän d´sl [key], pseud. of Karel Joan Lodewijk Alberdingk Thijm, 1864–1952, Dutch novelist, critic, and essayist. He was editor of De Nieuwe Gids [the new gui...

robot

(Encyclopedia)robot or automatonôtäm´tän [key] mechanical device designed to perform the work generally done by a human being. The Czech dramatist Karel apek popularized the expression [Czech,=compulsory ...

Krama, Charles

(Encyclopedia)Krama, Charles or Karel kä´rl krä´märsh [key], 1860–1937, Czechoslovakian political leader. Elected (1891) to the Austrian parliament, Krama soon became leader of the liberal nationalist ...

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