Vincenc Beneš (22 January 1883 – 27 March 1979) was a
Czech
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painter.
Early life and education
Beneš was born in
Lišice
Lišice is a municipality and village in Hradec Králové District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic
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,
Hradec Králové
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. He studied at the
Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
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from 1902 to 1904 and the
Academy of Fine Arts, Prague
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from 1904 to 1907.
Career
From 1909 to 1911, and again from 1917 to 1949 he was a member of the
Mánes Union of Fine Arts
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.
His style was initially influenced by
cubism and
fauvism, and he later formed realistic
oil painting
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s, showing the effect of
Neo-Classicism
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. He contributed to the ''Art Monthly'' periodical.
Among his most important works include a series of landscapes for the
National Theatre and some battlefields in France.
In 1963 he was named a
National Artist.
Death
He died in 1979 in
Prague
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.
See also
*
List of Czech painters
This is a list of Czech painters.
A
* Miroslav Adámek
*Mikoláš Aleš
* Jiří Anderle
* Jaroslav Augusta
* Jan Autengruber
B
* Karel Balcar
* Lojza Baránek
* Vojtěch Bartoněk
* Břetislav Bartoš
* Viktor Barvitius
* Jan Bauch
* Alo ...
References
1883 births
1979 deaths
People from Hradec Králové District
People from the Kingdom of Bohemia
20th-century Czech painters
20th-century Czech male artists
Czech male painters
Academy of Fine Arts, Prague alumni
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