František Kaván
František Kaván (10 September 1866, Víchovská Lhota near Jilemnice - 16 December 1941, Libuň near Jičín) was a Czech painter and poet.

Kaván studied at the gymnasium in Hradec Králové, which he finished in 1888. During 1889 to 1896 he studied painting at the academy in Prague under the guidance of Julius Mařák. He was a member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. He spent the end of his life in the area of Krkonoše, his birthplace. Kaván was a very humble and likeable person who had given away most of his paintings.

As a painter, he specialised in realistic landscapes and created over 4,000 paintings. He concentrated on the mountain areas of Krkonoše and Vysočina.

Unlike his paintings, Kaván's poems were soon forgotten. He also translated literary works from Russian.

Paintings

External links

 Short biography, portrait and one painting (in Czech)
 Another biography (in Czech) 

1866 births
1941 deaths
Landscape artists
Czech poets
Czech male poets
19th-century Czech painters
Czech male painters
20th-century Czech painters
People from Semily District
19th-century Czech male artists
20th-century Czech male artists
Painters from Austria-Hungary
Poets from Austria-Hungary
Czechoslovak painters
Czechoslovak poets