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Josef Capek was a Czech artist who was best known as a painter, but who was also noted as a writer and a poet. He invented the word "robot", which was introduced into literature by his brother, Karel Čapek. Due to his critical attitude towards national socialism and Adolf Hitler he was arrested after the German invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1939. He wrote Poems from a Concentration Camp in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where he died in 1945.
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The year of birth of the artist is: 1887