Karel Klíc - Czech Artist and Inventor

Karel Klíc - Czech Artist and Inventor
Karel Klíc - Czech Artist and Inventor
Karel Klíc - Czech Artist and Inventor
iBase ID
238497
Reference identifier
NLA20130328013
Title
Karel Klíc - Czech Artist and Inventor
Place
Lancaster
Personal names
Karel Klic, Thomas Storey
General notes
Karel Václav Klíc (sometimes written Karl Klietsch) was born at Arnau, Czech Republic in 1841. His father owned a photographic studio, where he is thought to have worked. He later went into printing at first creating drawings and wood cuts for publication. In the 1870s he started photo-chemical experiments for printing artwork and opened his own business, Photochemische Werkstaette, in Vienna.
In 1878 Karel Klic invented a pioneering commercial photogravure printing process which he sold around Europe. Around 1890, Karel came to England. He sold his process to Storey Brothers and Co. Ltd. of Whitecross, Lancaster makers of printed sheeting and coated fabrics, sail and cloth makers, who began the first commercial use of the process in 1893 under Karel Klic's technical supervision. Storeys formed Rembrandt Intaglio Printing Company Ltd. in 1895, the first rotogravure firm, and Klic became a partner in this business. By 1900 Rembrandt was producing gravure prints commercially and in large quantities. The firm enjoyed a de facto monopoly for several years.
Karel returned to Vienna in 1897, making frequent trips to the Rembrandt plant until World War I.
In 1892, Karel Klic painted a portrait of Sir Thomas Storey, of Storeys Brothers, the Lancaster industrialist and philanthropist. This can now be seen at Lancaster City Museum.

Karel Klic died in Vienna on November 16 1926 aged 85.
Medium
Photographic print
Colour
Sepia
Year of image
c1900
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