List of Czech painters
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  • Miroslav Adámek
    Miroslav Adámek
    Miroslav Adámek was a Czech painter, graphic artist and illustrator.From 1976-1980 he studied in Uherské Hradiště SUPS in graphic design, then studied at the Academy with professor Soucek and Kolar .He was noted in particular for his paintings and drawings used ideas in architecture such as...

  • Mikoláš Aleš
    Mikoláš Aleš
    Mikoláš Aleš , was a Czech painter.-Biography:Aleš was born in Mirotice near Písek, into a relatively rich family that was in debt at the time. He was taught history by his brother František until the latter's death in 1865; he expressed interest in painting at an early age...

  • Jiří Anderle
    Jiří Anderle
    Jiří Anderle is a Czech painter and graphic artist.In 1961 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts...

  • Jaroslav Augusta
    Jaroslav Augusta
    Jaroslav Augusta was a Czechoslovakian painter, based in modern day Slovakia....

  • Jan Autengruber
    Jan Autengruber
    Jan Autengruber was a Czech painter.- Works :* Vlastní portrét – 1910, oil canvas* Švadleny – 1912, oil canvas* Bavorská selka – 1913, oil canvas* Před koupáním – 1913, oil canvas...



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  • Karel Balcar
    Karel Balcar
    Karel Balcar is a Czech painter. In 1992 he was accepted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague under professor Zdeněk Beran and graduated in 1999...

  • Vojtěch Bartoněk
    Vojtěch Bartoněk
    Vojtěch Bartoněk was a Czech painter and restorer.He studied at the Prague Academy under Professor Jan Swerts, then in Paris. He painted historical pictures, later genre pictures from the streets, courtyards and markets...

  • Břetislav Bartoš
    Břetislav Bartoš
    Břetislav Bartoš was a Czech painter.-Biography:During his studies at the Academy from 1909 to 1914 he was one of the last pupils of Professor Hanuš Schwaiger...

  • Viktor Barvitius
    Viktor Barvitius
    Viktor Barvitius was a Czech painter, representative of modern realism.In 1864 he graduated from the Prague Academy, his graduate work was a picture of the Battle of Crecy. From 1855 to 1858 lived in Paris, where he studied under Thomas Couture...

  • Lojza Baránek
    Lojza Baránek
    Lojza Baránek is a Czechoslovak painter.From 1951 to 1957 he studied at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava under professor Ladislav Vychodil...

  • Jan Bauch
    Jan Bauch
    Jan Bauch was a versatile Czech artist, especially as a painter and sculptor.He graduated from the School of Applied Arts and at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1924 . He devoted himself to painting, drawing, illustration, printmaking, sculpture, and worked on the windows in St...

  • Alois Beer
    Alois Beer
    Alois Beer was a Czech author and painter.After his apprenticeship in 1849 he went to Vienna, Prague, Styria, Bavaria, northern Italy, Venice, Verona and Milan and Ljubljana. In Ljubljana, he attended painting courses.After returning to Dobruška in 1858 he opened a business. In 1862 he married...

  • Josef Konstantin Beer
    Josef Konstantin Beer
    Josef Konstantin Beer was a Bohemian painter, restorer and art collector.Born on 11 March 1862 in Most, he left his home city in 1879 and went to Vienna, where he graduated from the School of Arts and then went to the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1886 he studied painting in Karlsruhe and the...

  • Jaroslav Benda
    Jaroslav Benda
    Jaroslav Benda was Czech painter, graphic artist, author, designer of postage stamps and posters, monumental decorations. His contributions significantly affected the development of Czech book graphics....

  • Karel Benedík
    Karel Benedík
    Karel Benedík was a Czech painter and restorer. He first trained as a painter, then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, and focused on restoration work...

  • Vincenc Beneš
    Vincenc Beneš
    Vincenc Beneš was Czech painter.He studied at the College of Applied Arts in Prague and Academy of Fine Arts in Prague . In 1909-1911 and 1917-1949 he was a member of the Mánes Union of Fine Arts...

  • Oldřich Blažíček
    Oldřich Blažíček
    Oldřich Blažíček was a Czech painter, representative of modern landscape paintings....

  • Josef Bolf
    Josef Bolf
    Josef Bolf is a Czech painter.He studied at the Academy between 1990 - 1998. In 1995 he studied at Kongsthögskolan and in 1996 at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart. From 1996 to 2002 he was a member of the art group Bezhlavý jezdec. Bolf's creation captures the strange characters,...

  • Adolf Born
    Adolf Born
    Adolf Born is a Czech painter and illustrator, caricaturist and film-maker.Born in the town of České Velenice on the Czech-Austrian border, Adolf Born got his Visual Arts Education from 1949 to 1955 in Prague, where he still lives and works.Since the 1960s his works have been exhibited all over...

  • Josef Bosáček
    Josef Bosáček
    Josef Bosáček was a Czech painter and classical graffiti artistHe was a pupil of Gabriel Jakub Wüger, Professor of the Painting Academy in Rome. In 1886 he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and studied under Professor František Sequens, Antonín Lhota and Julius Mařák...

  • Vladimír Boudník
    Vladimír Boudník
    Vladimír Boudník was a key figure in Czech post-war art, and a representative of the "explosionism" movement...

  • Václav Boštík
    Václav Boštík
    Václav Boštík was a Czech painter, graphic artist and illustrator.In 1937 he joined the Academy in Prague and from 1942, he was a member of the Umělecká berseda . In 1960 he became one of the founding members of the UB 12 Group.His early work is much influenced by painters Corot and Cézanne and...

  • Petr Brandl
    Petr Brandl
    Petr Brandl was a painter of the late Baroque, famous in his time but - due to isolation behind the Iron Curtain - rather forgotten until recently. He was of German-speaking Austrian descent in the bilingual kingdom of Bohemia...

  • Zdenka Braunerová
    Zdenka Braunerová
    Zdenka Braunerová was a Czech painter and graphic designer.A prominent Czech artist, she takes her place on history alongside the likes of Chittussi, Mrštík, Zeyer, Marten, Joža Uprka and sculptors František Bílek and Jan Zrzavý.Zrzavý described her as ".....

  • Jaroslav Brožek
    Jaroslav Brožek
    Dr. Jaroslav Brožek, CSc. is a Czech artist and professor of art major theorist in the field of color, art teaching and methodologies. He has published a number of notable publications about color and its effects on human perception, along with other authors of textbooks prepared for art schools...

  • Václav Brožík
    Václav Brožík
    Václav Brožík was a Czech academic painter.Since 1868 he studied at the Academy of Arts in Prague, Dresden, and Munich. In 1879 he went on study journey to the Netherlands....

  • Vratislav Hugo Brunner
    Vratislav Hugo Brunner
    Vratislav Hugo Brunner was a Czech typographer, illustrator, graphic designer, cartoonist, author, toy and stage designer and painter. He significantly affected the development of Czech book graphics.-References:...

  • Oskar Brázda
    Oskar Brázda
    Oskar Brázda was a Czech painter and artist.He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and then, through the imperial scholarship, he studied in Italy. In 1915, in Rome, he married Amelie Posse...

  • Alois Bubák
    Alois Bubák
    Alois Bubák was a Czech painter of landscapes and an illustrator.He was a son of a wood carver. After graduating from a gymnasium in Mladá Boleslav, he started to study at a college of theology in Prague on the wish of his parents. However, his talent and love of art soon brought him to the...

  • Zdeněk Burian
    Zdenek Burian
    Zdeněk Michael František Burian was a Czech painter and book illustrator whose work played a central role in the development of palaeontological reconstructions during a remarkable career spanning five decades...

  • Jan Burka
    Jan Burka
    Jan Burka was a Czech painter, graphic artist and sculptor.-Biography:Born on 14 une 1924 in Postoloprty as the younger son in an intermarriage, in 1940 he studied at a private art school and then attended a course in graphics at the Vinohrady Synagogue, led by Petr Kien...

  • František Bílkovský
    František Bílkovský
    František Bílkovský was a Czech painter, graphic designer and illustrator.This modest and extremely prolific artist was born in the family of a shoemaker in the village of Mrákotín. Here he developed his lifelong love - the fascination of horses...



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  • František Chalupa (painter)
    František Chalupa (painter)
    František Chalupa was a Czech painter and illustrator. As a painter he focused exclusively on landscape and architecture, almost always from the Czech Republic. His illustrations regularly appeared in magazines. At the end of his life he engaged in Renaissance composition ornaments. His last work...

  • Antonín Chittussi
    Antonin Chittussi
    Antonin Chittussi was a Czech Impressionist landscape painter.He was born in Ronov nad Doubravou to a Czech mother and a father of Italian descent. He was fascinated by the landscape of South Bohemia and of the Bohemian and Moravian Highlands...

  • Alfons von Czibulka
    Alfons von Czibulka
    Alfons Freiherr von Czibulka, or Alfons Cibulka was a Czech-Austrian writer and painter....

  • František Cína Jelínek
    František Cína Jelínek
    František Cína Jelínek was a Czech landscape painter.- Biography :Born on 6th June 1882 in Prague, he was the son of an innkeeper...

  • Tomáš Císařovský
    Tomáš Císařovský
    Tomáš Císařovský is a Czech painter.From 1978-1982 he studied in Prague SUPŠ in shaping and carving wood, and later studied at the Prague Academy ....

  • Josef Čapek
    Josef Capek
    Josef Čapek 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.- Biography :...

  • František Ringo Čech
    František Ringo Čech
    František Ringo Čech is a Czech painter, actor, lyricist, comedian, publicist, politician, dramatist, screenwriter and author.-References:...

  • Jaroslav Čermák (painter)
    Jaroslav Čermák (painter)
    Jaroslav Čermák was a Czech painter known primarily for his history paintings. Many of his paintings are in the collection of the National Gallery in Prague.- Biography :...

  • Jaroslav Černý (painter)
    Jaroslav Černý (painter)
    Jaroslav Černý was a Czech painter.Jaroslav Cerny came from a poor working class family. His extraordinary talent and artistic creativity became evident in primary school when he first exhibited his artwork. In his artistic development he was very involved with the František Kupka. His works...

  • Josef Černý (painter)
    Josef Černý (painter)
    Josef Černý is a Czech painter. His paintings often have a musical or rural theme.Josef Černý is a Czech painter. His paintings often have a musical or rural theme.Josef Černý is a Czech painter...

  • Věnceslav Černý
    Věnceslav Černý
    Věnceslav Černý was a Czech illustrator and painter.First, he studied at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts, later the Academy in Vienna. Alternately lived in Prague, Mladá Boleslav and Železnice...



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  • Dagmar Berková
    Dagmar Berková
    Dagmar Berková was a Czech graphic designer, illustrator and painter. She was predominant in children's book illustration, in particular the illustrations for Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland or Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales.-References:...

  • Alén Diviš
    Alén Diviš
    Alén Diviš was a Czech painter known for his melancholic art. Having spent much of his life abroad, often working in solitude, he remained rather unknown during his life but has had a postmortem revival in the art world....

  • Čeněk Dobiáš
    Čeněk Dobiáš
    Čeněk Dobiáš was a Czech painter.His paintings have different themes, portraits of Roma girls and women, children, colorful fields of flowers etc. From 1949 he was a member of SVU Ales in Brno , and from 1955 a member of the Association of Czechoslovak Artists.- Literature :* Pospíšil, Leopold: S...

  • Václav Dosbaba
    Václav Dosbaba
    Václav Dosbaba is a Czech painter. He has exhibited in Brno, Louny , Ostrava , Prague , Litomysl , Zlin and abroad in the U.S. , Austria.He joined the Group 4 in 1971.- Bibliography:* Václav Dosbaba. In: Šlépěje. 1995, č.7, s.50-52,fot....

  • Hana Dostalová
    Hana Dostalová
    Hana Dostalová was a Czech painter, illustrator , textile and glass designer . She was the sister of actress Leopolda Dostalová and director Karel Dostal.-Literature:...

  • František Roman Dragoun
    František Roman Dragoun
    František Roman Dragoun was a Czech portrait painter from Písek. He painted more than five thousand paintings and drawings and was also a poet. His son, Roman Dragoun, is a notable progressive rock musician.-References:...

  • Valentin Držkovic
    Valentin Držkovic
    Valentin Držkovic was a Czech painter. He was strongly influenced by Art Nouveau and Impressionism.-References:...

  • Josef Dubiel von LeRach
    Josef Dubiel von LeRach
    Josef Dubiel von LeRach is a Czech painter and illustrator and author of over twenty books. He studied under Professor J. Olik and at the Prague Academy of Art. He uses many different styles, mediums, and techniques...

  • Jan Dungel
    Jan Dungel
    Jan Dungel is a Czech painter, graphic artist and illustrator. A member of the Union of Visual Artists of the Czech Republic, he is especially noted for his paintings and drawings of animals, particularly birds, heavily influenced by a trip to South America in 1992.-References:...

  • Ferdiš Duša
    Ferdiš Duša
    Ferdiš Duša was a Czech painter, graphic artist and illustrator.-Notable works:* Těšínsko * Smutná země * Dolů Váhom * Tatry Ferdiš Duša (1888-1958) was a Czech painter, graphic artist and illustrator.-Notable works:* Těšínsko (1920)* Smutná země (1922)* Dolů Váhom (1933)* Tatry Ferdiš Duša...

  • Bohumír Dvorský
    Bohumír Dvorský
    Bohumír Dvorský was a Czech painter. Strongly influenced by Julius Mařák and Paul Cézanne, his works generally had social themes.Bohumír Dvorský was supposed to become a bookbinder, however, he became attracted by painting. In 1924 he started to attend the Academy of Fine Arts, the studioof...

  • Jiří Dvořák
    Jiří Dvořák
    Jiří Dvořák is a Czech actor. He starred in the film Operace Silver A under director Jiří Strach in 2007.-References:...



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  • Josef Fanta
    Josef Fanta
    Josef Fanta was a Czech architect, furniture designer, sculptor and painter. One of the most prominent representatives of Czech Art Nouveau architecture he created many notable public architectural works including Prague Railway Station and the Peace Monument "Austria" in Prague in 1910–1912...

  • Bedřich Feigl
    Bedřich Feigl
    Bedřich Feigl was a Czech Jewish painter, graphic designer and illustrator.-Biography:Feigl studied at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts with Vlaho Bukovac and Františka Thieleho. In 1906, he travelled through Europe with Emil Filla and Antonín Procházka. In Berlin he become familiar with the art of...

  • Stanislav Feikl
    Stanislav Feikl
    Stanislav Feikl was a Czech painter.He studied at the School of Applied Arts and at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts. For inspiration, he toured Russia, Turkey, Dalmatia and northern Italy. He is known for his pictures of old Prague, rural areas and portraits of women, including naked...

  • Josef Fiala
    Josef Fiala
    Josef Fiala , was a composer, oboist, viola da gamba virtuoso, cellist, and pedagogue.He was born in Lochovice in Bohemia and began his professional career as an oboist in the service of Countess Netolicka. In 1777 he moved to Munich to serve in the court orchestra of Elector Maximilian Joseph...

  • Petr Fiala (painter)
  • Eva Filemonová
  • Emil Filla
    Emil Filla
    Emil Filla , a Czech painter, was a leader of the Avant-Garde in Prague between World War I and World War II and was an early Cubist painter....

  • Hugo Anton Fisher
    Hugo Anton Fisher
    Hugo Anton Fisher was an artist primarily known for painting landscapes in watercolor. He was born into a family of artists in Kladno, Czechoslovakia. In 1874, he immigrated to New York, and in 1886, he moved to Alameda, California with his wife and children...

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  • Jan Florian
    Jan Florian
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  • Viktor Foerster
    Viktor Foerster
    Viktor Foerster was a Czech painter and mosaic artist.He was the son of the composer Josef Foerster and younger brother of the composer Josef Bohuslav Foerster....

  • Karel Franta
    Karel Franta
    Karel Franta is a Czech painter and illustrator.-References:...

  • Vladimír Franz
    Vladimír Franz
    Vladimír Franz is a Czech composer for theatre and opera and painter.- Discography :# Kamenný most - 1997.# Faust - 1998.# Cirkus Humberto - 1998.# Júdit Tractatus Pacis - 1999.# Vladimír Franz pro Národní divadlo - 1999....

  • Richard Fremund
  • Emanuel Salomon Friedberg-Mírohorský
  • Emanuel Frinta
  • Josef Fronk
  • Josef Führich
  • Jan Funer


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  • Milada Gabrielová
  • Rudolf Gajdoš
  • František Gellner
    František Gellner
    František Gellner was a Czech poet, short story writer, artist and anarchist.-Biography:František Gellner was born to a poor Jewish family in Mladá Boleslav, Bohemia. His father was a seller and a keen socialist...

  • Norbert Grund
  • Jaroslav Grus
  • Josef Grus (painter)


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  • Zdeněk Hajný
  • Jan Kryštof Handke
  • Vladimír Hanuš
  • Rudolf Hanych
  • Mirko Hanák
  • Roman Havelka
  • Bedřich Havránek
  • Jan Jiří Heinsch
  • Josef Vojtěch Hellich
  • Oldřich Hlavsa
  • Josef Hlinomaz
    Josef Hlinomaz
    Josef Hlinomaz was a Czechoslovak film actor and painter. He appeared in over 150 films and television shows between 1948 and 1978.-Selected filmography:* Komedianti * Hvězda jede na jih...

  • Stanislav Hlinovský
  • Robert Hliněnský
  • Arnošt Hofbauer
  • Karel Hofman
  • Vlastislav Hofman
    Vlastislav Hofman
    Vlastislav Hofman was a Czech artist and architect. Though he was a painter, set designer, graphic artist, furniture designer, and author, Hofman is best known as an architect strongly influenced by Cubism....

  • Miloslav Holý
  • Max Horb
  • František Horký
  • František Horčička
    František Horčička
    František Horčička Born in Prague June 29, 1776 and died in Prague April 5, 1856. History and portrait painter. Along with painters Antonín Machek and František Tkadlík and sculptor Václav Prachner, he was among the first local artists to reimagine Neoclassicism using Romantic ideas...

  • Jaroslav Hovadík
  • Helga Hošková-Weissová
    Helga Hošková-Weissová
    Helga Hošková-Weissová is a Czech artist, and a Holocaust survivor. She was from the Czech Jewish ghetto of Terezin, and was one of ten percent of children from there to survive the Holocaust, in part because she convinced Josef Mengele and the other guards that she was older and her mother was...

  • Václav Hradecký
  • Emmerich Alois Hruška
  • Antonín Hudeček
  • František Hudeček
  • Jakub Husník
    Jakub Husník
    Jakub Husník was a Czech painter, art teacher and inventor of the improved photolithography method.-Life:...

  • Vojtěch Hynais
  • Patrik Hábl
  • Jan František Händl
  • Květoslav Hísek
  • Otakar Hůrka


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  • Ludvík Jadrníček
  • Jan Quirin Jahn
  • Josef Jambor
  • Ludmila Jandová
  • Ota Janeček
  • Václav Jansa
  • Přemysl Janíček
  • Karel Javůrek
    Karel Javůrek
    Karel Javůrek was a Czech painter, known for his history paintings. He received his initial training with Christian Ruben after spending time in František Tkadlík's studio; he then followed Jaroslav Čermák to Antwerp, where he studied with Gustave Wappers. Further study in Paris followed, with...

  • František Antonín Jelínek
  • Jiří Jelínek (trumpeter)
    Jiří Jelínek (trumpeter)
    Jiří Jelínek was a Czech painter, illustrator, jazz trumpeter and popular singer, one of the music legends of the Semafor Theatre in 1960s...

  • Antonín Jemelka (painter)
  • Felix Jenewein
  • Jakub Jerabek
    Jakub Jeřábek
    Jakub Jeřábek is a Czech ice hockey player currently playing for HC Plzeň of the Czech Extraliga.Jeřábek captained the junior Czech Republic tean at the 2011 World Junior Championships and was the third highest scoring defenceman of the tournament, after Ryan Ellis and Dmitri Orlov.-Regular season...

  • Miloš Jiránek
  • Věra Jičínská
  • Jiří John
  • Josef Wenig
  • Vojtěch Benedikt Juhn
  • Václav Junek
    Václav Junek
    Václav Junek is a Czech businessman.Junek was a chairman of bankrupt conglomerate Chemapol Group.Junek's company Chemapol Reality purchased from Václav Havel his 50 percent stake in a legendary dance-hall Lucerna Palace on Wenceslas Square for CZK 200 mio. It sold it two years later to Dagmar...

  • Alfréd Justitz
  • Miloslav Jágr
  • Jan Jůzl


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  • Aleš Kalivoda
  • Bedřich Kamarýt
  • Vilém Kandler
  • Josef Kaplický
  • Karel Karas
  • Karel Kafka
  • František Kaván
    František Kaván
    František Kaván was Czech painter and poet.Kaván studied 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...

  • Adolf Kašpar
    Adolf Kašpar
    Adolf Kašpar , was a Czech painter and illustrator.-Life:The son of a general wares dealer, Kašpar studied at Prague Academy under Maxmilián Pirner, but his foremost mentor was eventually Hanus Schwaiger, a famous Czech painter and children's book illustrator.-Works:Kašpar was a notable artist, who...

  • Karel Ludvík Klusáček
  • Svatopluk Klír
  • Karel Klíč
    Karel Klíc
    Karel Václav Klíč was a Czech painter, photographer and illustrator. He appears to be known as one of the inventors of photogravure ....

  • Jan Knap
  • František Kobliha
  • Kristian Kodet
  • Alena Koenigsmarková
  • Vladimír Kokolia
  • Bohumil Konečný
  • Jan Konůpek
    Jan Konupek
    Jan Konůpek was an internationally renowned Czech painter, illustrator, and engraver. A list of his graphic works comprises 1448 works and more than 600 book illustrations. He is among the three greatest known Czechs for interwar art, alongside František Kobliha and František Drtikol.-External...

  • Adolf Kosárek
  • Jan Kotík
    Jan Kotík
    Jan Jakub Kotík was a Czech artist and rock drummer.- Life :Jan Jakub was the son of composer Petr Kotík and curator of contemporary art Charlotta Kotík, who emigrated to the USA in 1970. Jan was a musician and visual artist...

  • Pravoslav Kotík
  • Jan Kotěra
    Jan Kotera
    Jan Kotěra was a Czech architect, artist and interior designer, and one of the key figures of modern architecture in Bohemia.-Biography:...

  • Jiří Kovařík (painter)
  • Stanislav Kovář
  • Martin Krajc
  • Jindřich Duchoslav Krajíček
  • Josef Kramolín
  • Josef Kranz
  • Vilém Kreibich
  • Josef Krejsa
  • Rudolf Kremlička
  • Josef Kremláček
  • Vladimír Kristin
  • Jiří Kroha
    Jiří Kroha
    Jiří Kroha was a Czech architect, painter, sculptor, scenographer, designer and pedagogue. He was an important exponent of Czech architecture and design during inter-war period.- Biography :...

  • Jaromír Krosch
  • Karel Kroupa (painter)
  • Gustav Krum
  • Josef Krčil
  • Ludvík Kuba
    Ludvík Kuba
    Ludvík Kuba was a Czech landscape painter, musician, writer, professor in the Academy of Fine Arts. He was a representative of the Late-Impressionism and he collected folk traditions.-Life:...

  • Vojtěch Kubašta
    Vojtech Kubašta
    Vojtěch Kubašta was a Czech architect and artist.Vojtěch Robert Vladimír Kubašta was born in Vienna. His family moved to Prague when he was four years old and he lived there his entire life. He demonstrated his artistic talent at the age of four. He had a great desire to become an artist. His...

  • Bohumil Kubišta
    Bohumil Kubista
    Bohumil Kubišta was a Czech painter and art critic, one of the founders of Czech modern painting. He studied at the School of Applied Arts in Prague, but left in 1906 to study at the Reale Istituto di Belle Arti in Florence...

  • Otakar Kubín
    Otakar Kubín
    Otakar Kubín, was an internationally renowned Czech painter and sculptor born in Boskovice, Moravia, Austria-Hungary. His works are mainly associated with Impressionism. He was influenced by such artists as Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, and formed a friendship with Pablo Picasso. He was...

  • Ruda Kubíček
  • Oldřich Kulhánek
  • Jan Kupecký
    Jan Kupecký
    Ján Kupecký or Jan Kupecký was a Czech and Slovak portrait painter during the baroque...

  • František Kupka
    František Kupka
    František Kupka was a Czech painter and graphic artist. He was a pioneer and co-founder of the early phases of the abstract art movement and Orphic cubism...

  • Petr Kvíčala
    Petr Kvíčala
    Petr Kvíčala is one of the most significant personalities in Czech abstract non-picture painting. At the turn of 1980’s and 1990’s he became a pioneer in discovering and promoting ornament as a unique individual phenomenon. He also significantly contributed to the acceptance of aesthetic qualities...

  • Jano Köhler
  • Jan Křesadlo
    Jan Kresadlo
    Jan Křesadlo was the primary pseudonym used by Václav Jaroslav Karel Pinkava , a Czech psychologist who was also a prizewinning novelist and poet....


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  • Bohdan Lacina
  • Josef Lada
    Josef Lada
    Josef Lada was a Czech painter and writer.He is best known as the illustrator of Jaroslav Hašek's World War One novel The Good Soldier Švejk...

  • Ladislav Šponták
  • Alena Ladová
  • Oldřich Lajsek
  • Eduard Landa
  • Richard Lauda
  • Vladimír Lavický
  • Oldřich Laštůvka
  • Otakar Lebeda
  • Felix Ivo Leicher
  • Antonín Lewý
  • Antonín Lhota
  • Kamil Lhoták
    Kamil Lhoták
    Kamil Lhoták was a Czech painter, graphic artist, and illustrator. He was one of the members of Group 42.- Biography :...

  • František Liebl
  • Karel Liebscher
  • Adolf Liebscher
  • Josef Liesler
    Josef Liesler
    Josef Liesler was a Czech surrealist painter, graphic designer, illustrator, exlibris and postage stamp designer....

  • Emanuel Krescenc Liška
  • Jan Kryštof Liška
  • Jiří Lochman
  • Ivana Lomová
  • Emil Artur Longen
  • Ludvík Herzl
  • Alois Lukášek

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  • Jindřich Mahelka
  • Petr Maixner
  • Antonín Majer
  • Cyprián Majerník
  • Vincenc Makovský
    Vincenc Makovský
    Vincenc Makovský was an avant-garde Czech sculptor and industrial designer. He was a founding member of the Prague surrealist group, but was not active with the group for long. He founded the School of Arts in Zlín in 1940. In 1941 he designed the first Czech radial drilling machine, known as the...

  • Jan Maloch
  • Josef Mandl
  • Milada Marešová
  • František Xaver Margold
  • Luděk Marold
    Ludek Marold
    Luděk Marold was a Czech realist painter. He lived in Prague, Paris and Munich....

  • Hynek Martinec
  • Josef Maršál
  • Herbert Masaryk
  • Josef Mathauser
  • František Matoušek
  • Jan Matulka
    Jan Matulka
    Jan Matulka was a Czech-American modern artist originally from Bohemia. Matulka's style would range from Abstract expressionism to landscapes, sometimes in the same day.-Early life:...

  • Julius Mařák
  • Mikuláš Medek
    Mikuláš Medek
    Mikuláš Medek is one of the most important representants of modern Czech painting. Nephew of excellent impressionist Antonín Slavíček and son of general of Czechoslovak army and catholic writer Rudolf Medek, is thanks to his original expression, deepness of idea and spirituality of his work one of...

  • Jiří Meitner
  • Jan Miko
  • Eduard Milén
  • Jan Minařík
  • Vincenc Morstadt
  • Jan Moštěk
  • Alfons Mucha
    Alfons Mucha
    Alfons Maria Mucha , known in English as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, known best for his distinct style. He produced many paintings, illustrations, advertisements, postcards, and designs.-Early years:...

  • Alois Mudruňka
  • Josef Mukařovský
  • Ida Münzbergová
  • František Muzika
  • František Myslivec (painter)
  • Alena Málková-Vimrová
  • Antonín Mánes
    Antonín Mánes
    Antonín Mánes was a Czech painter. The only pupil of Austrian painter Karl Postl, he was active as a landscapist. He was much influenced by painters of the Dutch Golden Age, such as Jacob van Ruisdael; he was also exposed to the work of Caspar David Friedrich and Johan Christian Clausen-Dahl,...

  • Josef Mánes
    Josef Mánes
    Josef Mánes was a Czech painter.He was taught by his father, Antonín Mánes , who was a landscape painter and the professor of arts; in addition, he was the nephew of Václav Mánes, and brother of Quido Mánes and Amalie Mánesová, all of whom were also painters...

  • Quido Mánes
    Quido Mánes
    Quido Mánes was a Czech painter. He was the son of Antonín Mánes, nephew of Václav Mánes, and brother of Josef Mánes and Amalie Mánesová, all of whom were also painters. Some of his work may today be seen in the collections of the National Gallery in Prague.-Reference:*Naděžda Blažíčková-Horová,...

  • Amalie Mánesová
    Amalie Mánesová
    Amalie Mánesová was a Czech painter. She was the daughter of Antonín Mánes, niece of Václav Mánes, and sister of Josef and Quido Mánes, all of whom were also painters. Some of her work may today be seen in the collections of the National Gallery in Prague.-Reference:*Naděžda Blažíčková-Horová, ed...


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  • František Xaver Naske
  • Josef Matěj Navrátil
  • Otakar Nejedlý
  • Jiří Novosad
  • Láďa Novák
  • Vladimír Novák
    Vladimir Novak
    Vladimír Novák was a Czechoslovakian Nordic skier who competed in the 1920s and in the 1930s. He won a silver medal in the 4 x 10 km at the 1933 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Innsbruck....

  • Willi Nowak
  • Jan Nowopacký
  • František Mořic Nágl
  • Augustin Němejc

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  • Jakub Obrovský
    Jakub Obrovský
    Jakub Obrovský was a Czech artist.He was born in Brno-Bystrc and died in Prague.In 1932 he won a bronze medal for Czechoslovakia in the art competitions of the Olympics for his "Odysseus".-External links:...

  • Oldřich Jelínek
  • Viktor Oliva
    Viktor Oliva
    Viktor Oliva was a Czech painter and illustrator.His most famous painting, "Absinthe Drinker" , hangs on the wall of the historical Cafe Slavia in Prague, Czech Republic....

  • František Ondrúšek
  • Emil Orlík
    Emil Orlík
    Emil Orlik was born in Prague, which was at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and lived and worked in Prague, Austria and Germany...

  • Eduard Ovčáček
    Eduard Ovčáček
    Eduard Ovčáček , Czech graphic artist, sculptor, lettrist, painter and professor at University of Ostrava....

  • Michal Ožibko

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  • Jaroslav Panuška
  • Miroslav Parák
  • Karel Pavlík (painter)
  • Martin Pawera
  • Jan Pažout
  • Antonín Pelc
  • Peretz Beda Mayer
  • Milan Peric
    Milan Peric
    Milan Perić is a Serbian footballer currently for Soproni Liga side Kaposvári Rákóczi FC.His playing style has been compared to that of former "crno-beli" superstar Mateja Kežman's.-Partizan:...

  • František Peterka (painter)
  • Václav Peřina
  • Ivo Pešák
    Ivo Pešák
    Ivo Pešák was a Czech singer, dancer, and comic performer. He is perhaps best known for his work with Ivan Mládek, in the latter's Banjo Band, and particularly for his high-spirited performance in the viral video phenomenon, Jožin z Bažin.Pešák was born at Jaroměř, then in the Protectorate of...

  • August Bedřich Piepenhagen
  • Charlotte Piepenhagen-Mohr
    Charlotte Piepenhagen-Mohr
    Charlotte Piepenhagen-Mohr was a Czech painter, primarily of landscapes. She was the daughter of August Piepenhagen, with whom she studied alongside her sister Louise...

  • Robert Piesen
  • Radek Pilař
  • Soběslav Pinkas
  • Kateřina Pinosová
  • Maxmilián Pirner
  • Bedřich Piskač
  • Otto Placht
    Otto Placht
    Otto Placht is a Czech artist known for his paintings. Placht spends a great deal of time in Pucallpa, Peru, the same town as artist Pablo Amaringo...

  • Petra Placáková
  • Ludmila Pokorná
  • Karel Pokorný (painter)
  • Ignàc Josef Porges
  • Gustav Porš
  • Jan Preisler
  • Vojtěch Preissig
  • Antonín Procházka (painter)
  • Linka Procházková
  • Jindřich Prucha
  • Karel Purkyně
    Karel Purkyně
    Karel Purkyně was a Czech painter. He was one of the most prominent proponents of realism in Czech art in the second half of the 19th century. He was the son of the physiologist and anatomist Jan Evangelista Purkyně, and developed an interest in art while still young...


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  • Ignác Raab
    Ignác Raab
    Ignác Viktorin Raab was a Czech Jesuit and is considered one of the most important Czech painters of the 18th century....

  • Václav Rabas
  • Vlastimil Rada
  • Josef Jáchym Redelmayer
  • Václav Vavřinec Reiner
    Václav Vavrinec Reiner
    Wenzel Lorenz Reiner was a Baroque painter who lived and died in Prague, Bohemia.-External links:* * *...

  • Josef Rejsek
  • Jaroslav Ronek
  • Pavel Rudolf
  • Zdeněk Rykr
  • Jaroslav Róna
    Jaroslav Róna
    Jaroslav Róna is a Czech sculptor, painter, actor, educator, and writer.-Works:*Franz Kafka bronze statue, Dusni Street , historic Jewish Quarter, Prague; inspired by the events in the Description of a Struggle*The Angel Award statuette *The Komerční banka Award statuette*Book, Umanuté kresby,...


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  • Miroslav Sabev
  • Joseph Ignatz Sadler
  • Berenika Saudková
  • Josef Václav Scheybal
  • Jakub Schikaneder
    Jakub Schikaneder
    Jakub Schikaneder was a Czech painter, known for his soft paintings of the outdoors, often lonely in mood...

  • Otakar Schindler
  • Toni Schoenecker
  • Hanuš Schwaiger
  • Otakar Sedloň
    Otakar Sedlon
    Otakar Sedloň was a Czech realistic painter living in Prague.Otakar Sedloň was born on August 30, 1885 in Trpín - a small village between Polička and Kunštát in East Bohemia, formerly part of Austro-Hungarian Empire. Otakar attended primary school in Vamberk and followed on with a high school...

  • Vladimíra Sedláková
  • Vojtěch Sedláček
    Vojtěch Sedláček
    Vojtěch Sedláček is a Czech entrepreneur, who established Obsluzna spol. and Agentura ProVas . Both companies have a mission of creating employment and business opportunities for people with disabilities...

  • Alfred Seifert
    Alfred Seifert
    Alfred Seifert was a Czech-German painter, famous for his female portraits....

  • František Sequens
  • Jindřich Severa
  • Zdenek Seydl
  • Alois Sikora
  • Jan Skalický
  • František Skála
    František Skála
    František Skála jr is a Czech sculptor, painter, children's book illustrator, musician, and dancer.He studied woodcarving at Secondary Applied Arts School Prague, 1971–1975 and in 1982 graduated from the University of Applied Arts in film and television graphics.He achieved his first major...

  • Vít Skála
  • Antonín Slavíček
    Antonín Slavícek
    Antonín Slavíček was a renowned Czech painter.He was a part of the Czech impressionist movement. One of his most famous works is "Garden Wall," which hangs in the National Gallery in Prague.-External links:**...

  • Jan Slavíček
  • Josef Slepička
  • Pavel Smetana (painter)
  • Jiří Sopko
  • Karel Souček
    Karel Soucek
    Karel Soucek was a Canadian professional stuntman. He lived in Hamilton, Ontario....

  • Ladislav Stehlík
  • Ladislav Stejskal (painter)
  • Otto Maria Stritzko
  • Antonín Strnadel
  • Antonín Střížek
  • Karel Svoboda (painter)
  • Karel Svoboda-Škréta
  • Karel Svolinský
  • Josef Syrový
  • Jan Šafránek
  • Jaroslav Šerých
  • Vlastimil Šik
  • T. F. Šimon
    T. F. Simon
    Tavík František Šimon , was a painter, etcher, and woodcut artist....

  • Adriena Šimotová
  • Karel Škréta
    Karel Škréta
    Karel Škréta or Carolus Creten was a Czech Baroque painter.- Biography :His full name is Karel Škréta Šotonovský ze Závořic. Karel learnt painting perhaps from one of the masters at the royal courtyard. He studied in Saxony and in Italy...

  • Barbora Šlapetová
  • Václav Špála
    Václav Špála
    Václav Špála was a Czech painter, graphic designer and illustrator.He studied at Prague Academy. His work he expose with “Stubborn” group. At the beginning of his career his work was influenced by Fauvism, later by Cubism. Since 1923 he painted mainly landscapes and still-lives.Václav Špála ranks...

  • Milada Špálová
  • Josef Štainochr
  • Stanislav Šturz
  • Otakar Štáfl
  • Karel Štěch
    Karel Štech
    Karel Štěch was a famous Czech landscape painter, graphic designer, woodcutter, and illustrator popular during the Communist era of Czechoslovakia.-External links:**...

  • Max Švabinský
    Max Švabinský
    Max Švabinský was a Czech painter, draughtsman, graphic artist, and professor in Academy of Graphic Arts in Prague. Švabinský is considered to be one of the more notable artists in the history of Czech painting and produced significant work during the first half of the 20th century...

  • Martin Šárovec
  • Josef Šíma
    Josef Sima
    Josef Šíma was a renowned Czech painter, an important figure of modern European art.- Biography :After graduating from Academy of Arts in Prague where he was the student of Jan Preisler he was involved in the Devětsil movement and in Umělecká beseda in Prague before travelling to Paris in 1921. He...


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  • Josef Tichánek
  • František Tkadlík
    František Tkadlík
    František Tkadlík was a Czech painter. Many of his works were painted in the Classicist and Empiricist styles. He served as court painter to the Czernin family from 1817 until 1825, and acted as guard of their art gallery in Vienna...

  • František Tichý (painter)
  • Oldřich Tichý
  • Margita Titlová
  • Vojtěch Tittelbach
  • Eduard Tomek
  • Jan Trampota
  • Jiří Trnka
    Jirí Trnka
    Jiří Trnka was a Czech puppet maker, illustrator, motion-picture animator and film director. In addition to his extensive career as an illustrator, especially of children's books, he is best known for his work in animation with puppets, which began in 1946...

  • Miloslav Troup
  • Lubomír Typlt

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  • Vladislav Vaculka
  • Ludvík Vacátko
  • Jaroslav Valečka
  • Karel Valter
  • Petr Vaněček
  • Vladimír Vašíček
    Vladimír Vašícek
    Vladimír Vašíček was a Czech painter, one of pioneers and classics of Czech modern and abstract painting past the Second World War.-External links:* ** , written by Josef Maliva, 1993** , Česky – English, 2005* *...

  • Ferdinand Velc
  • Jaromír Velecký
  • Martin Velíšek
    Martin Velíšek
    Martin Velíšek is a popular Czech artist whose work spans the media of glass and canvas, animated film, album covers, book covers, photography, sculpture, and interiors....

  • Zdeněk Veselý
  • Karel Vik
  • Jan Vilímek
    Jan Vilímek
    Jan Vilímek was a Czech illustrator and painter.Vilímek was born on 1 January 1860 in Žamberk, Bohemia. He created many portraits of famous personalities from Bohemia and other Slavonic nations. During the 1880s, these portraits were regularly published in magazines such as Humoristické listy,...

  • František Vláčil
    František Vlácil
    František Vláčil was a Czech film director, painter, and graphic artist.Between 1945 and 1950, he studied esthetics and art history at Masaryk University in Brno. Later he worked in various groups and ateliers , but his main area became played film...

  • Jan Vlček
  • Jan Antonín Vocásek
  • Libor Vojkůvka
  • Josef Voleský
  • Karel Vysušil
  • Jaroslav Věšín
    Jaroslav Vešín
    Jaroslav František Julius Věšín was a Czech painter who mainly worked in Bulgaria and who was noted as a master of genre painting. The realistic depiction of battle scenes from the First Balkan War are the subject of a substantial part of his work.Věšín was born in the town of Vraný in what is...


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  • Alois Wachsman
    Alois Wachsman
    Alois Wachsman was a Czech painter, stage designer and architect.- Life :From 1917-1922 he studied architecture at the Prague Technical University and in 1920 was one of the founders of Devětsil. From 1925-1928 he studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts under Josef Gočár...

  • Bedřich Wachsmann
    Bedřich Wachsmann
    Bedřich Wachsmann was a German-speaking Czech painter, decorator and architect.He graduated from high school and lower secondary school in his native Litoměřice. In 1840 he went to the Leipzig Academy of Painting and later in Dresden and Prague. In addition to studies he began making stone...

  • Josef Wagner the Younger
    Josef Wagner the Younger
    Josef Wagner the Younger was a Czech painter and sculptor.A pupil of Jan Štursa and Josef Mařatka, he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1922 to 1926. He was later a professor at the Art School in Prague...

  • Karel Wellner
    Karel Wellner
    Karel Wellner was a Czech graphic artist, painter, cartoonist, illustrator, art historian and critic. He was also a secondary school teacher and professor....

  • Vilém Wünsche
    Vilém Wünsche
    Vilém Wünsche was a Czech painter, graphic artist and illustrator. The topics of his art are mainly connected with the theme of Ostrava and the local life of afflicted miners....



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  • Josef Zelený
    Josef Zelený
    Josef Zelený was a Moravian painter who has devoted in particular to the formation of altarpieces, portraits and paintings of historical scenes, particular biblical....

  • Stanislav Zippe
    Stanislav Zippe
    Stanislav Zippe is a Czech artist, painter, sculptor and one of the leading representatives of kinetic art in Bohemia.- Biography :...

  • Karel Zlín
    Karel Zlín
    Karel Zlín, also known as Karel Machálek Karel Zlín, also known as Karel Machálek Karel Zlín, also known as Karel Machálek (born July 23, 1937 in Zlín is a Czech painter, sculptor and poet.After studying Applied Arts Secondary School in Uherské Hradiště he studied at Academy of Fine Arts in Prague...

  • Jan Zrzavý
    Jan Zrzavý
    Jan Zrzavý was a leading Czech painter, graphic artist, and illustrator of the 20th century.-Biography:He was born in Okrouhlice near Německý Brod in Bohemia . He studied privately in Prague and then attended the UMPRUM there for 2 years starting in 1907, before being expelled...

  • František Bohumír Zvěřina
    František Bohumír Zvěřina
    František Bohumír Zvěřina was a Czech painter.- Life :Zvěřina was born in Hrotovice. The tenth of twelve children, he spent his young childhood in his native Hrotovice and 1845 went to Znojmo for secondary school. In 1849 he moved to a higher secondary school in Prague. After graduation, he...

  • Adolf Zábranský
    Adolf Zábranský
    Adolf Zábranský was a Czech painter, graphic artist and illustrator.He became a member of the SVU Mánes and the Union of Czechoslovak Artists...

  • František Ženíšek
    František Ženíšek
    František Ženíšek was a Czech painter known best for his famous decorations of the Prague National Theatre foyer along with Mikoláš Aleš. In addition he painted the ceiling of the auditorium inside the theatre. He also contributed to the redecoration of the Prague National Museum.-References:...

  • Ladislav Žák
    Ladislav Žák
    Ladislav Žák was a Czech architect, painter, architectural theorist and teacher. He was an important exponent of the Czech functionalist architecture in the 1930s, later he devoted himself mainly to landscape architecture...

  • Vladimír Županský
    Vladimír Županský
    Vladimír Županský was a Czech painter and graphic artist. He designed posters and book covers. He is best remembered for his curtain painting in the Vinohrady Theatre which is said to "depict a naked Muse of a comely girlish figure descending on pinions among inspired artists".-References:...

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