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Antonín Mánes (3 November 1784 – 23 July 1843) was a Czech painter and draftsman.
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Antonín Mánes (3 November 1784 – 23 July 1843) was a Czech painter and draftsman.
Life
Mánes was born and died inPrague
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, which was part of the Austrian Empire
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when he died. He was the son of a miller and was self-taught because his family could not afford to send him to art school. For a time, he earned some extra money working as a painter in a porcelain factory. It wasn't until 1806 that he was able to attend the Academy of Fine Arts
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, where he was heavily influenced by his teacher, Karel Postl. In 1836, he became a Professor of landscape painting at the Academy. Among his best-known students were Eduard Herold and Johann Kautsky.
He eventually went from painting idealized landscapes to a more romanticized approach and was very fond of the Old Masters
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. His sons Josef and Quido
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and his daughter Amalie also became painters.
References
Further reading
* * Eva Reitharová: ''Antonín Mánes.'' Odeon, Prague (1967). * Naděžda Blažíčková-Horová, ed. ''19th-Century Art in Bohemia: (1790–1910) - Painting, Sculpture, Decorative Arts''. Prague; National Gallery in Prague, 2009.External links
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