19. century
Karel Hynek Macha
Prominent Czech poet
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Description
He was a brilliant Czech poet and the main representative of Czech Romanticism. He was also an actor in the Kajetan theater, a major admirer of the ideas of the Big French Revolution and loved traveling, in particular to Czech
castles. He was quite unbalanced with a tragic disposition, and this emotional burden was reflected in his work. He died while extinguishing a fire, two days before his wedding.
Marinka, 1833
Cikáni (Gypsies)
Máj (May), 1836
