Miloš Jiránek (19 November 1875 — 2 November 1911) was a Czech

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painter, art critic and writer.

Biography

Jiránek was born on 19 November 1875 in Lužec nad Vltavou. His father was a landowner and his mother came from a wealthy peasant family. While attending primary school in

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, he lived with

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, where he had access to a huge library.Brief biography, criticism and exhibition notes
@ the National Gallery, Prague. He mastered foreign languages easily and read many books in the original. In 1894, he studied at the

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. The following year, he transferred to the Academy of Fine Arts, where he began his studies with Maximilian Pirner and continued in the workshop of

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. In 1897, he joined the

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. In 1900, he travelled to Munich, Venice and

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, then accompanied his friend, , to the Exposition Universelle, where he met

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. A few years later, he would play a major role in introducing the works of Rodin and

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to Prague. He also spent three years in Slovakia, creating a cycle on the Tatra Mountains. In 1905 he married the painter, Antonína Zedniková. For a time, they lived in

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, where they painted some unconventional views of

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. In 1910, he had his first solo exhibition, at the . Later that year he had what was described as a "nervous breakdown". He died of

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on 2 November 1911 in Prague, at the age of 36. He was buried in

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Selected paintings

Miloš Jiránek - návštěva (1905).jpg , The Visit M.Jiránek - studie II (1910).jpg, Study II M.Jiránek - pískaři (1910).jpg, Sandstone Miloš Jiránek, Portrét Augusta Švagrovského.jpg, August Švagrovský, businessman and art patron

Writings

* ''Josef Mánes'' (illustrated biography), Union of Fine Arts, 190
Online
@ Kramerius

References

External links

"The Polemics of Miloš Jiránek on view at National Gallery"
interview with

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Miloš Jiránek
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Biography

Selected paintings

Writings

References

Further reading

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