Background
Miroslav Hak was born on March 9, 1911 in Nová Paka, Czech Republic.
Miroslav Hak was born on March 9, 1911 in Nová Paka, Czech Republic.
Miroslav Hak studied under his father, the photographer Frantisek Hak.
Between 1925 and 1931 Miroslav Hak worked as a photographer in Prague and Bratislava. 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.