Emil Czech

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Still life with an antique clock, 1917

Emil Czech (born October 17, 1862 in Horní Dlouhá Loučka , † July 7, 1929 in Dolní Dlouhá Loučka , today both Dlouhá Loučka in Okres Olomouc , Czech Republic ) was an Austrian painter from Moravia .

biography

Czech was born the youngest of ten children to a brewer. He spent his childhood in Mährisch-Neustadt .

He began his art studies at the Viennese drawing school of Peuschel and Deininger, then at the kk Kunstgewerbeschule of the kk Austrian Museum for Art and Industry . Then he worked for six years with Eduard Veith in the stage painting for the Vienna Volkstheater .

Emil Czech then used his experience with the ceiling paintings in the Ljubljana Theater.

In 1890, Czech founded his own studio, where he painted portraits , landscapes and genre pictures , as well as sacred pictures. His early works were in the style of academic naturalism , but gradually he switched to impressionist coloristics .

From 1904 Emil Czech was a member of the cooperative of visual artists and from 1916 a member of the Albrecht Dürer Association.

His works took part in exhibitions in Vienna, Munich , Graz , and Berlin , in 1903 he showed his works at the Austrian exhibition in Chicago .

literature

  • Jiří Hastík: Figurální tvorba umělců Olomouckého kraje. MUO Olomouc 2010
  • Jiří Olič: Anti- modernist. MUO Olomouc 2009
  • J. Sedlářová, J. Kačer: Výtvarné umění Moravy 1880-1920. Brno 1994
  • J. Sedlářová: Moravské malířství druhé poloviny 19th století. Kroměříž 1981

Web links

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