Adolf Liebscher
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Adolf Liebscher (11 March 1857, in
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– 11 June 1919, in Potštejn) was a Czech
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.


Life and work

After completing his education in the local schools, he went to Vienna, where he attended a three-year course for drawing teachers under Ferdinand Laufberger. He then spent six months preparing to enter a competition for the creation of decorations in the foyer at the National Theater. He received the Second Prize, and his drawings were used for the
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s. Afterwards, he spent several months in Italy. Upon his return, he received a series of public commissions, including work at the Rudolfinum, the municipal union hall in Písek and the government office buildings in
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and
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. He became a teacher at the
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in 1879, was promoted to Associate Professor in 1895 and was named a Professor in 1911. In 1903, he exhibited a cycle of
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paintings entitled "Czech Elegy", featuring an iconic portrait crowned with thorns, meant to symbolize the suffering of the Czech nation from the oppression of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. That same year, he painted a portrait of Emperor
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. In addition to his historical scenes, he produced folk-costume studies, altarpieces and illustrations, many of which appeared in the magazines ''Zlatá Praha'' and '' Světozor''. Together with his brother
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(who was also an artist), he created a panoramic mural, " The Swedes on the Charles Bridge", for the Mirror Maze at Petřín.


Gallery

File:Adolf Liebscher - Černohorská idyla.jpg, '' Montenegrin Idyll'', unknown year File:Adolf Liebscher - Zalíbení.jpg, ''Zalíbení'' (), unknown year File:Adolf Liebscher - Dobytí Prahy Jiříkem Poděbradským roku 1448.jpg, ''Conquest of Prague by Jiřík Poděbrady in 1448'', unknown year File:Adolf Liebscher (1857 - 1919) - Pobřeží.jpg, ''Pobřeží'' (), unknown year File:Adolf Liebscher Dame mit Sonnenschirm 1884.jpg, ''Dame mit Sonnenschirm'', 1884 File:Adolf Liebscher - Pastierske zjavenie - O 1021 - Slovak National Gallery.jpg, ''Pastierske zjavenie'' (), 1880 File:Adolf Liebscher - Kníže Oldřich a Božena.jpg, '' Prince Oldřich and Bozena,'' unknown year File:Adolf Liebscher - Táboři dobývají Prachatic.jpg, ''Campers conquer
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'', unknown year (likely part of a series on the
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) File:Adolf Liebscher - Čechové na Baltu.jpg, ''Czechs in the Baltic'', unknown year File:Adolf Liebscher - Bitva na vrchu Vítkově.jpg, '' Battle of Vítkov Hill,'' unknown year (likely part of a series on the
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) File:Adolf Liebscher - Křižáci u Domažlic utíkají před blížícími se Husity.jpg, ''Crusaders near Domažlice flee from the approaching Hussites,'' unknown year (likely part of a series on the
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) File:Liebscher, Adolf - Útok husitských Pražanů.jpg, ''Attack of Hussite Praguers'', unknown year (likely part of a series on the
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) File:Adolf Liebscher - Slavný vjezd krále Ladislava do Prahy r. 1453.jpg, ''The famous entry of King Ladislav into Prague in 1453'', unknown year File:A. Liebscher - Příjezd poselstva českého do Paříže r. 1457 (Obrázkové dějiny národa českého, 1893).png, ''Arrival of the Czech delegation in Paris,'' for an 1893
Pictoral History of the Czech Nation
' File:Adolf Liebscher - Volba Jiříka z Poděbrad za krále českého na radnici staroměstské dne 2. března r. 1458.jpg, ''Election of Jiřík of Poděbrady as
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at the Old Town Hall on March 2, 1458'', unknown year File:Adolf Liebscher.jpg, Unknown title and year File:Adolf Liebscher - Den.jpg, ''Day'', unknown year File:Adolf Liebscher Franz Joseph 1903.jpg, ''Portrait of the old Emperor
Franz Joseph Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I ( ; ; 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the ruler of the Grand title of the emperor of Austria, other states of the Habsburg monarchy from 1848 until his death ...
in the regalia of the
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'', 1903


References


Further reading

* Vilém Weitenweber, ''Adolf Liebscher'', in "Zlatá Praha" (1885) Vol.5, No.19 pg.25

* ''Z kulturního světa'', in "Zlatá Praha" (1919), Vol.6, No.36 pg.33

* ''Adolf Liebscher'', in "Humoristické listy" (1887), Vol.12, No.29 pg.43


External links


ArtNet: More works by Liebscher
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