Antonín Lhota (2 January 1812, Kutná Hora – 10 September 1905, Volyně) was a Czech painter and art teacher.

Life and work

He studied at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts under and

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.Galerie Marold: Biography of Lhota
/ref> After further studies in Munich and Vienna, he returned to the Academy in 1844, where he was employed for ten years, proofreading lectures and serving as an assistant teacher. This was followed by a multi-year study trip to Italy and Paris which included participation in the

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. In 1867, he became a Professor at the Academy in Prague and was promoted to Director upon the death of Jan Swerts (1879). He specialized in history painting, secular and religious, primarily on Czech subjects. He was active as a painter well into his seventies, when he painted murals at the Home for the Blind in Mala Strana. He retired at the age of seventy-five and went to live with his son, Emil, who ran an industrial school in

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. His other son, Augustin, was a drawing teacher in

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. Apart from his own works, he taught an entire generation of Czech painters, including

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, František Ženíšek,

Mikoláš Aleš Mikoláš Aleš (18 November 1852 – 10 July 1913) was a Czech painter. Aleš is estimated to have had over 5,000 published pictures; he painted for everything from magazines to playing cards to textbooks. His paintings were not publicized t ...

, Jakub Schikaneder,

Maximilian Pirner Maximilian Pirner ( cs, Maxmilián Pirner; 13 February 1853 in Sušice – 2 April 1924 in Prague) was a Czech painter. He was a member of the Vienna Secession, and associated with the Mánes Union of Fine Arts. Life and work He was enrolled fro ...

Josef Václav Myslbek Josef Václav Myslbek (20 June 1848 – 2 June 1922) was a Czech sculptor and medalist credited with founding the modern Czech sculpting style.Stech, V. V. Josef Vaclav Myslbek, Prague, 1954. Artia. Life Josef grew up poor in a suburb of Prague ...

and others. From 1872, he also served as an examiner for teacher candidates in the Czech and Moravian elementary schools. At the time of his ninetieth birthday in 1902, he was the oldest living Czech painter. By then, his painting style was considered somewhat obsolete as it focused on composition and detail, but neglected the psychological element. His most lasting contribution may be the joy for painting he instilled in the artists of the next generation. "Antonín Lhota", ''Zlatá Praha'' (Golden Prague), September 1905, Vol.22 #48, pages 573-57

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References

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Biographical data
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