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Bedřich Havránek or, in German, Friedrich Hawranek (4 January 1821, Prague - 1 March 1899, Prague) was a Czech painter, illustrator and art teacher.
File:Havranek, Bedrich - Ze Sazavy (1859).jpg, Scene on the Sázava River
File:Havranek, Bedrich - Breh mezi Novymi a Dolnimi Lodeckymi mlyny (1853).jpg, Mills on the Vltava River
File:Bedřich Havránek - Údolí potoka.jpg, Valley with a Stream
File:Bedřich Havránek - Kamenný Přivoz on the Sázava River.jpg,
Biographical data
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Bedřich Havránek or, in German, Friedrich Hawranek (4 January 1821, Prague - 1 March 1899, Prague) was a Czech painter, illustrator and art teacher.
Biography
His father was a lawyer who served on the Criminal Council. His mother was the daughter of a Frenchman who settled in Bohemia during the Napoleonic Wars. The environment at home was intellectually-oriented and he received a very good education. He began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in the landscape painting classes ofAntonín Mánes
Antonín 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 fam ...
. Following Mánes' death, he continued his studies with Christian Ruben and Max Haushofer. After graduating, he toured France, Poland, Germany and England and compiled sketchbooks of his travels.
Upon returning, he settled in Prague, remained unmarried and, financially independent, generally pursued painting as a sort of hobby. He became one of the favorite painters of the Austrian Archduke Ludwig Salvator
Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria ( it, Luigi Salvatore Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Dominico Raineri Ferdinando Carlo Zenobio Antonino, german: Ludwig Salvator Maria Joseph Johann Baptist Dominicus Rainerius Ferdinand Carl Zenobius Antonin) ...
, who took lessons from him. Even in his old age, he would travel into the countryside to paint en plein aire; always making scrupulous records of the location and time of day. Originally a Romanticist, he drifted away from that style during his last few years.
Selected paintings
Kamenný Přívoz
Kamenný Přívoz (german: Steinüberfuhr) is a municipality and village in Prague-West District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Hi ...
on the Sázava River
Sources
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Further reading
* Naděžda Blažíčková-Horová, ''Bedřich Havránek 1821-1899'', Odeon, 1994External links
Bedřich Havránek
@ the Databáze Národní Knihovny ČR
More works by Havránek
@ ArtNet {{DEFAULTSORT:Havranek, Bedrich 1821 births 1899 deaths Painters from the Austrian Empire Landscape painters from Austria-Hungary Artists from Prague