Václav Brožík | Academic painter

Václav Brožík (1851-1901) was a Czech painter who worked in the academic style.

Brožík was born on 6 March 1851 in Třemošná, Bohemia, Austrian Empire (now the Czech Republic).

He came from a poor family, studying lithography and porcelain painting through apprenticeships.

Yary Dluhos, 1944 | Impressionist painter

Yary Dluhos was born in an area of the Czech Republic considered by many to be a center of culture, the city of Olomouc.

Strongly influenced by the historical and picturesque ambiance of her native Olomouc, she soon began to paint and draw early in her childhood.

All her formative years spent drawing and painting finally culminated with her acceptance to the renowned art school in Uherski Hradiste, in the Czech Republic.

Antonietta Brandeis | Il Ponte Vecchio, Firenze, 1910

Antonietta Brandeis (Miskovice, 13 gennaio 1848 - Firenze, 20 marzo 1926) è stata una pittrice Italiana di ritratti e di pale religiose.

Giovinezza

Nata in Boemia, a Miskovice, l'adolescente Antonietta è menzionata come pupilla dell'artista praghese Karel Javůrek. Dopo la morte del padre, la madre Giuseppina Dravhozvall si sposò con il veneziano Giovanni Nobile Scaramella; apparentemente la famiglia si trasferì poco dopo in laguna.

Nel 1867 entrò nell'Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, figurando come una delle prime donne a seguire lezioni di Belle Arti in Italia.

Infatti, le donne si vedranno riconosciuto il diritto legale di ricevere un'educazione artistica solo nel 1875.

Jaroslav Seifert | Rondò di primavera

Tu devi credermi, io sarei felice

se sorrisi mandassero i tuoi occhi

quando stasera dovrai ricucire

ciò che le mie mani ti hanno strappato.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Jaroslav Seifert | Di pomeriggio uno scroscio di pioggia..

Di pomeriggio uno scroscio di pioggia

fece profumare anche l’erba pesta

e la sera, piena di primaverile malinconia,

lenta s’univa alla notte.

Jeff Rowland

Jaroslav Seifert | Se al cuore si potesse dire / If one could tell one’s heart…

Se al cuore si potesse dire:

non correre!

Se potessi ordinargli: brucia!

Già si spegne.

Marc Chagall

Vojtěch Hynais | Art Nouveau painter

Vojtěch Adalbert Hynais (also Albert; 1854, Vienna - 1925, Prague) was a Czech painter, designer and graphics artist.

He designed the curtain of the Prague National Theatre, decorated a number of buildings in Prague and Vienna, and was a founding member of the Vienna Secession.

He was made an Officer of the Légion d'honneur in 1924.

Gabriel von Max | Romantic / Symbolist painter

Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max (23 August 1840 – 24 November 1915) was a Prague-born Austrian painter.

He was born Gabriel Cornelius Max, the son of the sculptor Josef Max and Anna Schumann.

He studied between 1855 and 1858 at the Prague Academy of Arts with Eduard von Engerth.

His studies included parapsychology (somnambulism, hypnotism, spiritism), Darwinism, Asiatic philosophy, the ideas of Schopenhauer, and various mystical traditions.

The spiritual-mystical movement was emphasized by the writings of Carl du Prel, and the Munich painter Albert Keller was also an influence.