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Alfons Maria Mucha (1860 - 1939) - Czech Republic (Ivančice)
Art Nouveau
Alfons Maria Mucha (Czech: [ˈalfons ˈmuxa] ( listen) 24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939), known as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, known best for his distinct style. He produced many paintings, illustrations, advertisements, postcards, and designs. Alphonse Maria Mucha was born in the town of Ivančice, Moravia (curre...... |
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Anton Raphael Mengs (1728 - 1779) - Czech Republic (Ústí Nad Labem)
Neo-Classicism
Anton Raphael Mengs (March 22, 1728 – June 29, 1779) was a German Bohemian painter, active in Rome, Madrid and Saxony, who became one of the precursors to Neoclassical painting. Mengs was born in 1728 at Ústí nad Labem (German: Aussig) in Bohemia, the son of Ismael Mengs (da), a Danish painter who eventually established himself at Dresden. His elde...... |
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Georg Flegel (1566 - 1638) - Czech Republic (Olomouc)
Georg Flegel (1566 Olomouc – 23 March 1638, Frankfurt-am-Main) was a German painter, best known for his still life works. Flegel was born in Olmütz (Olomouc), Moravia. Around 1580 he moved to Vienna, where he became an assistant to Lucas van Valckenborch I, a painter and draughtsman. Flegel and his employer later moved to Frankfurt, which at the ti...... |
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Markus Lüpertz Czech Republic (Reichenberg)
Markus Lüpertz (born 25 April 1941) is a contemporary German painter, sculptor, poet, writer, professor of art, and jazz pianist. Markus Lüpertz was born in Liberec, Czech Republic (formerly Reichenberg, Bohemia) on April 25, 1941. His family emigrated to Rheydt, Rhineland (formerly West Germany) in 1948. Studying under Laurens Goossens, Lüpertz at...... |
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Antonietta Brandeis (1849 - 1926) - Czech Republic (Miskowitz)
Antonietta Brandeis (also known as Antonie Brandeisova and Antonio Brandeis) (1848–1926), was a Czech-born Italian landscape, genre and portrait painter, as well as a painter of religious subjects for altarpieces. She was born on January 13, 1848, in Miskovice (near Kutná Hora) in Eastern Europe. The first bibliographical indication of Antonietta B...... |
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Felix Ivo Leicher (1727 - 1812) - Czech Republic (Bílovec)
Felix Ivo Leicher (May 18 or 19, 1727 - February 20, 1812) was a Czech-born Viennese painter of altarpieces and secular works, which was spread to a wide area throughout the Habsburg Empire and beyond. He was born in the Silesian town Bílovec, today on the wall to the right of the main entrance of the parish church is a plaque that hangs in his mem...... |
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Vaclav Jansa (1859 - 1913) - Czech Republic
Václav Jansa (22 October 1859, Slatinice, near Most - 29 June 1913, Černošice) was a Czech landscape painter and illustrator best known for his watercolors of the Staré Město in Prague. When he was still a boy, his parents were hired as servants for Johann Joseph, Count Herberstein (1854-1944), so they moved to Solany, near Děčany in Litoměřice Dis...... |
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Martin Ferdinand Quadal (1736 - 1811) - Czech Republic (Niemtschitz)
Martin Ferdinand Quadal (born Czech: Chvátal 28 October 1736 – 10 January 1811) was a Moravian-Austrian painter and engraver. He was born at Niemtschitz (Czech: Němčice), near Kojetín in Moravia, in 1736. He came in early life to London, then visited France and Italy, worked at Vienna in 1787-9, and in St. Petersburg 1797-1804. After a second visit...... |
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Anton Pilgram (1460 - 1516) - Czech Republic (Brno)
Anton Pilgram (also Anton Pilchramb) (around 1460, Brno (?) – 1516, Vienna) was a late medieval Austrian (German) architect and sculptor active in the area of today's Czech Republic (Moravia), Austria and western Germany. Pilgram is known as the sculptor of the portal of Old City Hall in Brno and craftsman of the pulpit in St. Stephen's Cathedral, ...... |
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