Antonín Mánes
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Antonín Mánes (3 November 1784 – 23 July 1843) was a Czech painter and draftsman.


Life

Mánes was born and died in
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, which was part of the
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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
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, 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
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and Johann Kautsky. He eventually went from painting idealized landscapes to a more romanticized approach and was very fond of the
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. His sons Josef and Quido and his daughter Amalie also became painters.


References


Further reading

* * Eva Reitharová: ''Antonín Mánes.'' Odeon, Prague (1967). * Naděžda Blažíčková-Horová, ed. ''19th-Century Art in Bohemia: (1790–1910) - Painting, Sculpture, Decorative Arts''. Prague; National Gallery in Prague, 2009.


External links


ArtNet: More works by A. Mánes

Arcadja: More works by A. Mánes
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