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Mikoláš Aleš (18 November 1852 – 10 July 1913) was a
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Aleš is probably best known today as being one of the painters (the other being František Ženíšek) that redecorated the famous foyer of the Czech National Theatre. Aleš did gain fame during his lifetime, especially for his architectural artwork but his paintings were mostly only praised after his death. Now many streets in the Czech Republic are named after Aleš. Aleš's work, while not embraced by the German
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Czech
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painter.Mikolas Ales' childhood in Mirotice/ref> Aleš is estimated to have had over 5,000 published pictures; he painted for everything from
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to playing cards
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to textbook
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s. His paintings were not publicized too widely outside Bohemia, but many of them are still available, and he is regarded as one of the Czech Republic
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's greatest artists.
Biography
Aleš was born inMirotice
Mirotice (german: Mirotitz) is a town in Písek District in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,200 inhabitants. It is known as the birthplace of Mikoláš Aleš.
Administrative parts
Villages of Bořice, Jarotice, Luč ...
near Písek
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Písek is colloquially called "''South ...
, into a relatively rich family that was in debt at the time. He was taught history by his brother František until the latter's death in 1865; he expressed interest in painting at an early age. In 1879 he married Marina Kailová and moved to Italy
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where he continued his career in painting. He moved back to Prague
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to work on the new artwork at the Prague National Theatre along with other notable painters. Aleš died in Prague at the age of 60.
Legacy
Aleš is probably best known today as being one of the painters (the other being František Ženíšek) that redecorated the famous foyer of the Czech National Theatre. Aleš did gain fame during his lifetime, especially for his architectural artwork but his paintings were mostly only praised after his death. Now many streets in the Czech Republic are named after Aleš. Aleš's work, while not embraced by the German Nazis
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who controlled the Czech lands
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from 1938 to 1945, was used extensively for propaganda purposes by the later Communist regime especially during the 1950s. He was voted #89 in a 2005 poll regarding the most important Czech
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* Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe
** Czech language
** Czechs, the people of the area
** Czech culture
** Czech cuisine
* One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus'
Places
* Czech, ...
.
Descendant of his brother in law Otto Kail is the former President of the Czech Republic Václav Klaus
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.
See also
* List of Czech painters *Zemská Banka
Zemská Banka (german: Landesbank) was a significant state-sponsored financial institution in Prague during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was founded in 1890 as the ( cs, Zemská banka království Českého, french: Banque du Roya ...
, whose Prague head office has mosaics by Aleš
References
External links
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ales, Mikolas 1852 births 1913 deaths People from Mirotice People from the Kingdom of Bohemia 19th-century Czech painters 19th-century Czech male artists Czech male painters 20th-century Czech painters 20th-century Czech male artists Burials at Vyšehrad Cemetery