Quido Mánes

Quido Mánes , photo 1867

Girls , around 1860, Kooperativa Collection

Quido Mánes , also Guido Manes (born July 17, 1828 in Prague , † August 5, 1880 ibid), was a Czech painter.

Life

Quido Mánes came from a family of artists whose ancestors came from the Netherlands and was the son of Antonín Mánes and the younger brother of Josef Mánes . He studied from 1838 to 1851 at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts and from 1870 to 1871 with Benjamin Vautier in Düsseldorf .

meaning

Quido Mánes did not achieve the importance of his brother Josef, but was nevertheless one of the leading Czech painters in the field of genre painting. After beginning history painting, Mánes came to the genre around the middle of the 19th century, where he could play to his strengths. Above all, he portrayed scenes from the petty-bourgeois everyday life in Prague and folk scenes from the Chodenland in southwestern Bohemia. His depictions of children were very successful. A work planned together with his brother Josef on the folk costumes of the Bohemian countries did not materialize.

Works

• Girl (Kooperativa Collection, Wiener Städtische Versicherung), around 1860, oil on canvas, 38 cm × 31 cm

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Manes, the artist family . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 16th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1867, pp. 368–371 ( digitized version ).
• Rudolf Müller:  Manes, Guido . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 185 f.
• Quido Mánes. Exhibition catalog. Prague 1937
• V. Kratinová:  Mánes Quido. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 51.
• Manes, Guido . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 351.

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