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Amalie Mánesová
Amalie Mánesová (21 January 1817, Prague - 4 July 1883, Prague) was a Czech landscape painter. Biography She came from an artistic family. Her father, AntonÃn Mánes, brothers Josef Mánes, Josef and Quido Mánes, Quido, and uncle Václav Mánes, Václav were all painters. Although she wanted to specialize in portraits, her father believed it was inappropriate for a woman to do so and insisted that she do landscapes instead.Renáta TyrÅ¡ová, "Amalie Manesová", in ''SvÄ›tozor'', December 1899, #52/ref> He also gave her the only formal training she ever received. Much of her time was devoted to teaching her brothers. After her father's death in 1843, she took over his drawing courses; mostly patronized by wealthy aristocrats. The money earned was used to help her brothers, who were having trouble getting established in studios of their own. Impressed with Josef's talent, she accompanied him to Munich; teaching him to be more diligent and frugal. Once there, however, he fel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amalie Manesova 1837
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Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate oceanic climate, with relatively warm summers and chilly winters. Prague is a political, cultural, and economic hub of central Europe, with a rich history and Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque architectures. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia and residence of several Holy Roman Emperors, most notably Charles IV (r. 1346–1378). It was an important city to the Habsburg monarchy and Austro-Hungarian Empire. The city played major roles in the Bohemian and the Protestant Reformations, the Thirty Years' War and in 20th-century history as the capital of Czechoslovakia between the World Wars and the post-war Communist era. Prague is home to a number of well-known cultural attractions, many of which survived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AntonÃn Mánes
AntonÃn Mánes (3 November 1784 – 23 July 1843) was a Czech painter and draftsman. Life Mánes was born and died in Prague, which was part of the Austrian Empire when he died. He was the son of a miller and was self-taught because his family could not afford to send him to art school. For a time, he earned some extra money working as a painter in a porcelain factory. It wasn't until 1806 that he was able to attend the Academy of Fine Arts, where he was heavily influenced by his teacher, Karel Postl. In 1836, he became a Professor of landscape painting at the Academy. Among his best-known students were Eduard Herold and Johann Kautsky. He eventually went from painting idealized landscapes to a more romanticized approach and was very fond of the Old Masters. His sons Josef and Quido Le-Roy Quido Mohamed (16 August 1989), who performs under the name Quido, is a Namibian rapper Rapping (also rhyming, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is a musical form of vocal delive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Mánes
Josef Mánes (12 May 1820, Prague – 9 December 1871, Prague) was a Czech painter. Life He came from a family of painters, which included his father AntonÃn, his uncle and Director of the Prague Art Academy Václav, his brother Quido and his sister Amalie. His first painting lessons naturally came from his father. From 1835 to 1844, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, under Professors FrantiÅ¡ek TkadlÃk and Christian Ruben. He continued his studies in Munich for two years. Upon his return, an affair with the family's maid had unpleasant results and created an estrangement with some members of his family that left him in a state of severe depression. He found refuge in the patronage of Count BedÅ™ich Silva-Tarouca , living and working at his castle in Průhonice for twenty years. From there, he made many trips throughout Moravia, Upper Hungary (Slovakia) and Poland. He took an active role in many artistic, literary and patriotic societies. He also participat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quido Mánes
Quido Mánes (17 July 1828, Prague - 5 August 1880, Prague) was a Czech painter who specialized in genre scenes. Life and work He came from a family of artists that included his father AntonÃn, uncle Vaclav, brother Josef and sister Amalie. From 1838 to 1851 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague. His career was interrupted for several years after 1866 by Josef's severe illness. In 1871, following his brother's death, he refreshed his skills by taking further lessons from Benjamin Vautier at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He was best known for his scenes of everyday bourgeois life in Prague and folk scenes from Chodenland in southwest Bohemia. His portraits of children were especially popular. References Further reading * * Quido Mánes. Exhibition Catalog. Prague, 1937 External links * * Arcadja: Works by Mánes {{DEFAULTSORT:Manes, Quido 1828 births 1880 deaths 19th-century Czech painters Czech male painters 19th-century Czech male artists [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Václav Mánes
Václav Mánes (c. 1793 – 31 January 1858) was a Czech painter. He was the brother of AntonÃn Mánes and uncle of Quido and Josef Mánes and Amalie Mánesová, all of whom were also painters. Little is known of him; even the date of his birth is uncertain. He never married; living and working in AntonÃn's household for the duration of his career. Life and work He initially studied at a piarist school. Later, he was enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied with Joseph Bergler. In 1829, he was awarded the Klárovo Scholarship and spent the next three years living and working in Rome, where his chief companions were members of the Nazarenes. Stylistically, his work hovered somewhere between neoclassicism and Romanticism. He served as interim director of the Prague Academy from 1835 to 1836 and again in 1840. He won some acclaim for his depictions of scenes from the Bible, and painted portraits as well. After 1835, he was also a member of "" (Beautiful Unity) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Světozor
__NOTOC__ ''SvÄ›tozor'' ("Seeing the World") was a Czech-language illustrated magazine published in 19th and 20th century. History and profile ''SvÄ›tozor'' was created by Pavel Josef Å afaÅ™Ãk in 1834. Å afaÅ™Ãk was inspired by the British penny press and the German '' Pfennig-Magazin''. The newspaper, trying to entertain the readers with curiosities, did not incite much interest and closed down in two years. In 1867 the magazine was reestablished by FrantiÅ¡ek SkrejÅ¡ovský (1837–1902), an entrepreneur and politician. A substantial portion of the weekly was dedicated to the literature and the arts. Since 1899 for more than 30 years the magazine was owned by the publishing house of Jan Otto. Between 1933–1939 the magazine was owned by leftist journalist and photographer Pavel Altschul (1900–1944). Other notable uses ''SvÄ›tozor'' is also the name of a large (700 seats) cinema built in 1918 in Prague. There seems to be no relation with the magazine. The building serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Václav Levý
Václav Levý (also known as Wenzel Lewy; 14 September 1820 – 30 April 1870) was a Czechs, Czech sculptor. He was considered to be one of the pioneers of the modern style in Bohemia. Biography Levý was born in the village of NebÅ™eziny (today part of Plasy). He was the son of a shoemaker. When he was two years old, the family moved to Kožlany, where they remained. He showed an early aptitude for carving, creating several figures of the Virgin Mary and crucifixes. His parents were not sympathetic, however, and sought to apprentice him to a carpenter. At the urging of a local parson, he was sent away for an education, first to a certain abbey in Plzeň, then to the Discalced Augustinians, Augustinian monastery in Lnáře, where he became a cook, later serving a brief apprenticeship in Dresden. Upon returning from Dresden, he made the chance acquaintance of AntonÃn Veith, a landowner who was also a patron of the arts, and entered his service as a cook at his estate in LibÄ›ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Gallery In Prague
The National Gallery Prague ( cz, Národnà galerie Praha, NGP), formerly the National Gallery in Prague (), is a state-owned art gallery in Prague, which manages the largest collection of art in the Czech Republic and presents masterpieces of Czech and international fine art in permanent and temporary exhibitions. The collections of the gallery are not housed in a single building, but are presented in a number of historic structures within the city of Prague, as well as other places. The largest of the gallery sites is the Trade Fair Palace (''Veletržnà Palác''), which houses the National Gallery's collection of modern art. Other important exhibition spaces are located in the Convent of St Agnes of Bohemia, the Kinský Palace, the Salm Palace, the Schwarzenberg Palace, the Sternberg Palace, and the Wallenstein Riding School. Founded in 1796, it is one of the world's oldest public art galleries and one of the largest museums in Central Europe. History The history of the Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Česká Televize
Czech Television ( cs, ÄŒeská televize, italics=no ; abbreviation: ÄŒT) is a public television broadcaster in the Czech Republic, broadcasting seven channels. Established after the Velvet Revolution in 1992, it is the successor to Czechoslovak Television founded in 1953. History 1953–1992: Czechoslovak Television Founded on 1 May 1953, Czechoslovak Television (ÄŒST) was the state television broadcaster of Czechoslovakia used as a state propaganda medium of the then socialist state. It was known by three names over its lifetime: cs, ÄŒeskoslovenská televize, sk, ÄŒeskoslovenská televÃzia (until 1990) and (from 1990 until 1992). ÄŒST originally consisted of a single channel and limited experimental broadcasting in 1953. Regular broadcasts began on 25 February 1954 and on 10 May 1970, a second channel was launched. The broadcast language of ÄŒST was predominantly Czech in the first channel, Slovak for selected programming, and both for news. The second channel was sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1817 Births
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