Oldřich Blažíček (5 January 1887 in Slavkovice,

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– 3 May 1953 in

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) was a

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painter, representative of modern landscape paintings./is.muni.cz
/ref> He came from very humble beginnings. His father was a rural tailor. He apprenticed with his brother at a house as a painter and then went to Prague for work. He passed after four years at the

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, where he graduated under Hanus Schwaiger. There he became acquainted with many colleagues, many notable figures such as

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, Rudolf Kremlička,

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, and many others. He, however, to any creative group entered. Aside from being a noted landscape painter of his native

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, he was also famous for painting church interiors which brought him major success. His early painting of

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for instance was widely acclaimed by the Academy. He became a professor of painting at the CTU, where he worked until 1927 to 1948. Already in 1913, he had participated in exhibitions of the Union of Artists in

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and

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, followed by many others. He was awarded in Paris in 1921. He died on 3 May 1953 in Prague. He wrote his memoirs in the book ''Mládí na Vysočině'' (''Youth in the Highlands'').

Works

* ''Pvní jarní den'' - 1928 * ''U selského dvora'' - 1926 * ''Na večer v předjaří'' - 1925 * ''Doba velikonoční'' - 1930 * ''Na samotínku'' - 1928 * ''Rybníček ve Slavíkově'' - 1927

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1887 births 1953 deaths People from Nové Město na Moravě Academy of Fine Arts in Prague alumni 20th-century Czech painters 20th-century Czech male artists Czech male painters Czech Technical University in Prague alumni {{CzechRepublic-painter-stub

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