Quido Mánes (17 July 1828 – 5 August 1880) was a Czech painter who specialized in
genre
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scenes.
Life and work
Mánes was born in
Prague
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on 17 July 1828. He came from a family of artists that included his father
Antonín
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, uncle
Vaclav, brother
Josef and sister
Amalie. From 1838 to 1851 he studied at the
Academy of Fine Arts, Prague
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History
Starting ...
. His career was interrupted for several years after 1866 by Josef's severe illness.
In 1871, following his brother's death, he refreshed his skills by taking further lessons from
Benjamin Vautier at the
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
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.
He was best known for his scenes of everyday bourgeois life in Prague and folk scenes from
Chodenland in southwest Bohemia. His portraits of children were especially popular.
He died in Prague on 5 August 1880.
References
Further reading
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* Quido Mánes. Exhibition Catalog. Prague, 1937
External links
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Arcadja: Works by Mánes
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1828 births
1880 deaths
19th-century Czech painters
Czech male painters
19th-century Czech male artists
Painters from Prague
Painters from Austria-Hungary
Burials at Olšany Cemetery