František Bohumír Zvěřina (4 February 1835 – 27 December 1908) was a

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painter.

Life

Zvěřina was born in Hrotovice. The tenth of twelve children, he spent his young childhood in his native Hrotovice and 1845 went to

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for secondary school. In 1849 he moved to a higher secondary school in

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. After graduation, he joined the Max Haushofer school in 1852. Already after two years of study his paintings were exhibited. He accepted a position teaching drawing in a higher secondary school in

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, where on July 15, 1863, he married Jindřiška Janečková. After two years in

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and five years in

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, moved to

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in 1871 and finally from 1876 he lived continuously until his death in

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, where he taught art at a high school. Zvěřina died after a severe illness on 27 December 1908 in Vienna, Austria, and was buried in the Central Cemetery.

Style

Zvěřina was usually classed as the

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style of art. The topics of his artwork drew mainly from his places of residence in Maribor, Gorizia,

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and

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. His drawings were published in a number of illustrated magazines of the time, published domestically and abroad. During his life he held many exhibitions in

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, and elsewhere. He was also employed to create paintings and drawings for churches in the Moravian region including the Church of St. Margaret's in

Jaroměřice nad Rokytnou Jaroměřice nad Rokytnou () is a town in Třebíč District in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 4,100 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech Republic)#Monumen ...

and the Jewish

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and also carried out restoration work on existing church pictures.* Zejda, R., Hedbávný, M., Jindra, P., Benda, P., Richter, K. ''Osobnosti Třebíčska.'' 1st ed. Třebíč: Akcent, 2000. , pp. 218–221.

References

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Life

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