Miroslav Hák

Place: Nová Paka

Born: 1911

Death: 1978

Biography:

Miroslav Hák was a Czechoslovak photographer born in Nova Paka, Czech Republic in 1911. He was one of the members of Group 42. Hák studied under his father, the photographer František Hák, and worked as a photographer in Prague and Bratislava between 1925 and 1931. In 1937, he joined the avant-garde D34 Theatre of Prague as a photographer and from 1940, he worked in the film industry. Between 1942 and 1948, Miroslav Hák associated with the Prague-based Group 42, which united avant-garde Czech photographers. From 1954, he served as a photographer at the Institute of Art Theory and History of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. Miroslav Hák died in Prague in 1978.