František Tkadlík

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František Tkadlík (* 23. November 1786 in Prague , † 16 January 1840 ) was a Czech painter and draftsman. He was one of the leading portraitists in Bohemia in the first half of the 19th century.

Life

Otakar Graf Czernin (1823) by Tkadlik

The son of a Prague innkeeper came into contact with painting for the first time in his early childhood. Two private drawing tutors lived in his parents' house, who presumably had a decisive influence on his later professional career. After rich relatives of the family supported him in this decision, after attending the New Town High School in Prague in 1803 he began studying at the Academy of Painting in Prague, and later studying philosophy at the Charles University in Prague .

The national rebirth movement emerging in Bohemia had a decisive influence on his work. On the recommendation of his professor Joseph Bergler , Johann Rudolf Czernin , Count von und zu Chudenitz , took care of him, who supported him during his studies until 1807. From 1817 to 1825 Tkadlík served as court painter to the noble family Czernin and overseer of its collection of paintings in Vienna worked and attended the local academy. Heinrich Friedrich Füger was one of his teachers . He kept in touch with his Czech scholars, including Josef Dobrovský and František Palacký , of whom he still made famous portraits. The close contact with these personalities deepened his patriotic feeling. After finishing his work in Vienna in 1824, he received a scholarship to stay in Rome . In 1832 he returned to Vienna and in 1836 to Prague, where he was appointed the first Czech director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague .

Works

With his work in the style of classicism and empiricism , with their spatial representations, he surpassed the works of his teachers. His pictures can be divided into several periods, most of which are closely related to his stay abroad. The first period up to his stay in Vienna is characterized by family portraits of Prague personalities. In Vienna it was mainly portraits of the Czernin family and of Dobrovský (1820) and Palacký (1821) as well as a picture with a patriotic theme The Return of St. Adalbert to the Homeland (1824). In Rome and Italy he devoted himself to biblical models. Apostle Paul says goodbye (1831) and landscape painting. After his return to Bohemia, other works from the history of the country with a patriotic touch were added, including St. Wenceslas and Ludmila at Mass (1837).

More pictures

  • Hagar in the desert (1815)
  • Praying Little Christ (1820)
  • Altarpiece of St. Joseph in the Maria Magdalenen Church in Krásná Lípa (Schönlinde) (1823)
  • Faith, Hope and Love (1824)
  • Madonna with Child and Johann (1825)
  • Christ Head with a Crown of Thorns (1827)
  • Young Italian (1829)
  • Justice and Peace (1832)
  • St. Ludmila and St. Wenceslaus in the Service of God (1839)
  • Diana and Apollo
  • Odysseus
  • Enyo
  • Abel's death
  • Noah's sacrifice
  • Return of St. Adalbert of Prague from the Benedictine monastery to his homeland in 933
  • Madonna and Child (commissioned for Countess Salm-Reifferscheidt)
  • Birth of Christ (commissioned picture for Count Kolowrat)
  • Tobias (commissioned picture for envoy Ritter Genott)
  • Paul says goodbye
  • Saint Luke
  • Madonna with child and angel
  • St. Wenceslas on golden ground
  • Deluge
  • Three angels with Abraham
  • Italian landscape
  • Christ in Emmaus
  • Jupiter the thunderer
  • Recovery of the Virgin after fleeing Egypt
  • Saint John the Baptist in the desert
  • Child with angel
  • Portrait of the Margrave Salm-Reifferscheidt
  • St. Cecilia
  • St. Rosalia

student

Josef Mánes was one of his best and most famous students .

literature

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Tkadlík, František
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kadlik, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1840
Place of death Prague