Antonín Mánes (3 November 1784 – 23 July 1843) was a Czech painter and draftsman.
Life
Mánes was born and died in
Prague
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, which was part of the
Austrian Empire
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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
Academy of Fine Arts
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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
Eduard Herold
Jan Eduard Herold (16 September 1820 in Prague – 5 August 1895 in Prague) was a Czech painter, illustrator, art critic and writer.
Biography
He was the eldest of three children born to Johann Christian Herold (?-1837), an impoverished acto ...
and
Johann Kautsky.
He eventually went from painting idealized landscapes to a more romanticized approach and was very fond of the
. 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. MánesArcadja: More works by A. Mánes
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1784 births
1843 deaths
Czech painters
Czech male painters
Painters from the Austrian Empire