1929
Jiří Reynek, Czech poet and graphic artist (died 2014)
Jiří Reynek, Czech poet and graphic artist (died 2014)
Jiří Reynek, Czech poet and graphic artist (died 2014)
Jiří Reynek
- Born
- 1929
Jiří Reynek was a Czech poet and graphic artist. A fluent French speaker, he translated the works of Henri Pourrat and Francis Jammes. He was the son of Suzanne Renaud and Bohuslav Reynek. Photographer Daniel Reynek was his older brother. The family spent winters in Grenoble and summers in Petrkov, where Reynek spent most of his adult life. The family farm was seized by Germany during World War II, then came under state control after Czechoslovakia transitioned to communism in the 1948 coup d'état.