Kyselak at Veveri Castle, Czech Republic
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A Kyselak's signature located at Veveri Castle.
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Location: Jihomoravský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 10/01/2011
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Josef Kyselak (1799-1831) was a clerk of the lowest grade in a ministry in Vienna at the time of the Emperor Franz I, yet he has an entry in the 19th-century Austrian dictionary of biography. Immediately after his name, where the reason for his being selected is given (e.g. statesman, artist, nowadays footballer perhaps), it says ‘eccentric’.
Kyselak was the Austrian Kilroy. He wrote his name in all sorts of places, especially inaccessible ones, on walls and buildings, on cliffs and church towers, caves and gorges. The name of this anonymous clerk was therefore, paradoxically, known throughout the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Even today an internet search locates him in histories of graffiti as the first ‘tagger’.
Veverí Castle (
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