Biography

Czech painter. In 1887-89 and 1893-95 he studied at the art academy in Prague under Maxmilian Pirner (1854-1924) and Václav Brožík (1851-1901). In 1891-93 he studied at the Academy in Munich with Otto Seitz (1846-1912). From 1897 he painted Impressionist landscapes in Bohemia, especially mountain scenery. He became friends with Antonín Slavíček.

In 1900 he had a one-man exhibition in Vienna, in 1901 he exhibited at the Wertheim department store in Berlin. He exhibited for the first time with the Mánes artists' federation in Prague in 1902. Later years he traveled in Italy, in the Austrian Alps.