Václav Brožík
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Václav Brožík (french: Vaclav de Brozik ; 6 March 1851, Třemošná – 15 April 1901
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painter who worked in the academic style.


Life

He came from a poor family, studying lithography and
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through apprenticeships. Beginning in 1868, with financial assistance from a local landowner, he was able to attend the
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in
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. He made a trip to the Netherlands, where he studied the
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, then settled in Paris (despite not being able to speak French), where a letter of recommendation assured him the support of Jaroslav Čermák. In 1879 he married Hermina Sedelmeyer, daughter of the wealthy Parisian art dealer
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.4 pictures and biography
at
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For most of his life, he divided his time between Paris and Prague, where he became a Professor at the Art Academy in 1893. He was named a member of the
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, partly through the influence of his father-in-law, who also suggested that he do a painting on the theme "Tu Felix Austria Nube" (from an old saying: "Let others wage war: thou, happy Austria, marry"). The result pleased Emperor
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, who was involved in an unhappy marriage. As a result, Brožík was elevated to the nobility. He also became a member of the
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, received the Grand Cross of the
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and was appointed to the Czech Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1884, one of his paintings appeared on a United States postage stamp. His health began to decline in 1894, but he threw himself into painting even more diligently. He died suddenly of heart failure in 1901 and was buried in
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. Appreciation of his work suffered a serious decline after his death, as it was considered old-fashioned, but a major retrospective in 2003 has created some renewed interest.


References


Further reading

* *''Osobnosti - Česko : Ottův slovník'' (Well-known Czechs from Otto's encyclopedia) Ottovo nakladatelství, Prague (2008) * Vošahlíková, Pavla: ''Biografický slovník českých zemí'', Libri, Prague (2007)


External links

*
Slovensko-Česky Klub: Brožík Retrospective


* ttp://www.radio.cz/print/cz/39130 Radio Prague: Pražská výstava obrazů Václava Brožíka končí už příští týden (Brožík's Retrospective Ends Next Week) by Evelina Himalová (2003) {{DEFAULTSORT:Brozik, Vaclav 1851 births 1901 deaths Academic art Burials at Montmartre Cemetery 19th-century Czech painters Czech male painters People from Plzeň-North District Academy of Fine Arts, Prague alumni Academic staff of the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague 19th-century Czech male artists