Painter, illustrator, graphic artist and designer, one of the most prominent Czech representatives of Romanticism and Realism. He was inspired by the Munich school of portrait painting, by his native Prague and by country life in Haná. He was one of the first Czech artists to systematically focus on folklore.
Distinguished Czech painter and talented illustrator, acknowledged and popular primarily because of his highly developed perception and the ability to truthfully capture reality and mood of everyday life, highly regarded especially in France.
Painter and graphic artist, a distinguished landscape painter and influential art pedagogue.
The most famous late Gothic Bohemian painter whose works were probably directly influenced by Italian Renaissance and the local tradition of fine arts.
Prominent and in his time apparently influential Gothic carver who probably worked in Moravia. He founded Czech sculpture and was also an important figure of Central European sculpture.
The most significant Czech Gothic painter, who blended in his works Czech art and artistic tendencies dominant in Italian and French art. He was a representative of the International Gothic, popular in Europe in the late 14th and early 15th century.
The first prominent painter of High Gothic and one of the most important representatives of Classical Gothic on a European scale, working probably at the court of Charles IV.
Court painter to Charles IV and the first head of the Painters’ Guild at Prague, known primarily as author of a cycle of panel paintings in the Chapel of the Holy Cross at Karlštejn.
Czech fashion designer working in Lebanon and in the Czech Republic. Her important clients are mainly celebrities in the countries of the Persian Gulf.
Czech-German sculptors, creators of tombstones, monumental sculptures, memorials and portraits, who worked on the decoration of Charles Bridge.
Prominent Czech painter and one of the most important and original representatives of modern Czech art of the second half of the 20th century. His spiritual works influenced younger generations of Czech artists.
Czech-American economist and one of the executive directors of the International Monetary Fund. Art collector and patron of the arts.
Fine artist, illustrator and author of children’s books in which she combines textual and artistic elements. She received the Gold Ribbon award for life-long contribution to literature and art.
World-renowned painter, graphic artist, designer and a key representative of Art Nouveau. He became famous in France for his applied art works and in America he was recognized as the world’s most famous decorative artist.
The most important Czech sculptor of the 19th century and one of the leading figures of the generation of the National Theatre. He is regarded as the founder of Czech modern sculpture and the foremost representative of monumental realism.
One of the most distinguished Czech painters and decorators, a talented landscape painter, master of small genre and still life, but also mural, who blended different artistic movements in his works.
Artistic group of the late 20th century whose work was based on the tradition of the interwar artistic group Tvrdošíjní (The Stubborn Ones) and became the first Czech group of fines artists outside the official regime organisation after 1968.
A loose group of artists who tended towards cosmopolitanism, created as a reaction to European modernist art and in spite of its short existence it foreshadowed the radical arrival of a new generation of artists.
Important Czech director and screenwriter, one of the most important figures of the New Wave, also a painter, sculptor, caricaturist and writer. He worked with Miloš Forman and Ivan Passer.
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