Frank Koči might have been called a “Street Artist,” but this exceptional “Creative Artist” was extremely more than that. In 1921 the 16-year old Frank Koči left his native Czechoslovakia, hoping to find better opportunities in America. He and his mother had been living close to poverty. His father was killed in Italy, fighting for the Austrian Empire in the Great War and they had been living on a meager pension. His mother was a very religious woman and an uncle was a preacher. Koči in his memoirs had much to say about religion: He had no use for it. “Religion is not only an opium, it’s insanity; and capitalist–religious tyranny; and nothing is more materialistic than the church and the fear of death that makes for plenty of jobs for the priesthood.”
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