Jan Vilímek (german: Johann Vilimek; 1 January 1860 – 15 April 1938) was a Czech

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. Vilímek was born on 1 January 1860 in

Žamberk Žamberk (; german: Senftenberg in Böhmen) is a town in Ústí nad Orlicí District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 6,000 inhabitants. In lies on the Divoká Orlice river. The town centre is well preserved and is pr ...

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. He created many portraits of famous personalities from Bohemia and other Slavonic nations. During the 1880s, these portraits were regularly published in magazines such as ''Humoristické Listy'', '' Zlatá Praha'' and '' Světozor''. In the 1890s, some of these illustrations were assembled into a book, ''České album''. He died on 15 April 1938 in

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. Jan Vilímek - Bedřich Smetana.jpg,

Bedřich Smetana Bedřich Smetana ( , ; 2 March 1824 – 12 May 1884) was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his people's aspirations to a cultural and political "revival." He has been regarded i ...

Jan Vilímek - Jan Neruda.jpg,

Jan Neruda Jan Nepomuk Neruda (Czech: �jan ˈnɛpomuk ˈnɛruda 9 July 1834 – 22 August 1891) was a Czech journalist, writer, poet and art critic; one of the most prominent representatives of Czech Realism and a member of the " May School". Early lif ...

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Ignacy Jan Paderewski Ignacy Jan Paderewski (; – 29 June 1941) was a Polish pianist and composer who became a spokesman for Polish independence. In 1919, he was the new nation's Prime Minister and foreign minister during which he signed the Treaty of Versaill ...

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Antonín Dvořák Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech composer. Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic-era nationalist example ...

External links

* List of Vilímek's portraits on Czech Wikipedia (incomplete, sorted by source, with links to digitized images on

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and external sites) 1860 births 1938 deaths People from Žamberk People from the Kingdom of Bohemia 19th-century Czech painters Czech male painters 20th-century Czech painters Czech illustrators Czech expatriates in Austria 19th-century Czech male artists 20th-century Czech male artists {{CzechRepublic-painter-stub