Vincenc Beneš (22 January 1883 – 27 March 1979) was a
Czech
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painter
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.
Early life and education
Beneš was born in
Lišice,
Hradec Králové
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. He studied at the
Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
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from 1902 to 1904 and the
Academy of Fine Arts, Prague from 1904 to 1907.
Career
From 1909 to 1911, and again from 1917 to 1949 he was a member of the
Mánes Union of Fine Arts.
His style was initially influenced by
cubism
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Cubist subjects are analyzed, broke ...
and
fauvism
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, and he later formed realistic
oil painting
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s, showing the effect of
Neo-Classicism
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. He contributed to the ''Art Monthly'' periodical.
Among his most important works include a series of landscapes for the
National Theatre and some battlefields in France.
In 1963 he was named a
National Artist.
Death
He died in 1979 in
Prague
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.
See also
*
List of Czech painters
References
1883 births
1979 deaths
People from Hradec Králové District
People from the Kingdom of Bohemia
20th-century Czech painters
20th-century Czech male artists
Czech male painters
Academy of Fine Arts in Prague alumni
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