Great Personalities - Karel Plicka

Hi ! The whole Himachal Pradesh is in the grip of snow and rain making the weather cooler day by day. As this is the peak time when temperature drops here considerably. People love sitting near the fireplace and doing their favourite work, sipping hot cup of tea as I am writing this post for you ! Well recently I created a new blog depicting my favourite stamps. We come across many stamps but some stamps always leave a mark in our mind with their beauty and exquisite design and they never vanish from our memory. They are so fascinating that they always remain in our mind. However I don't have the stamps which have been shown on blog except the stamps from India and on Taj Mahal. I will be very thankful if anyone helps me to get these stamps and I will certainly send Indian mint stamps and miniature sheets in exchange. Just visit my another blog www.myfavouritestamps.blogspot.com . This is all about my new Blog. In the second part the details about the famous international personality Karel Plicka, the noted phtographer & film maker.The Miniature sheet depicted above was issued on 12 September 2008 by Czech Republic. In the last part the details about Phila Post, the latest magazine launched jointly by India Post and PCI.This is all for the day !.....Till Next Post...Have a Great Time !.....



Karel Plicka

The theme of the common Czech and Slovak issue is the personality and work of the artist of comprehensive gifts and activities K. Plicka (1894-1987). Karel Plicka is a part of the culture of two - Czech and Slovak - nations. A distinguished photographer and film maker, he was active also in music and singing. His broad artistic activities in ethnography together with his sensitivity of an artist and musician enabled him to record both in notation and on photographs and film tapes the disappearing world of folk traditions, tales, songs and way of life. He was also a significant teacher. He was first engaged as a teacher at the School of Crafts in Bratislava, later as a professor and the first dean of a newly established Film Academy of the Academy of Arts in Prague. Plicka graduated in 1913 from the Teacher School in Hradec Králové, in 1928 from Komenský University in Bratislava in music science, ethnography and art history. In 1924-38 he collected Slovak folk songs and documented folk cultural for the ethnographic department of the Slovak ethnographic institute Matice slovenská. He recorded about 40,000 songs from Slovakia, Bohemia and Moravia, published in 1961 in the collections Czech Song Book and Slovak Song Book. He set up the archives of documentary and ethnographic photographs of the Matice slovenská. In 1937-39 he set up and headed the first film vocational centre of the School of Crafts in Bratislava. During World War II he worked in Prague where he published the book Prague on K. Plicka's Photographs. From the 50s he worked exclusively as a photographer (books of photographs Prague Castle, The Vltava River, Homeland The Beautiful, Levoča, etc.). A famous photographer, Plicka was highly appreciated both locally and internationally for his film documentaries (he won the Venezia Cup for his music poem Singing Country in 1934).

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