Pištělka Petr

Petr-Pištělka-1887-1963-Skopje-Market-Scene-1940-lithography

Born in Švábenice in 14.07.1887, died in Vyškov in 1963. Graduated in 1913 at the Prague Art Academy in the class of H. Schwaiger and M. Pirner. He made a study trip to Italy in 1914. In the First World War he served his army duty in Russia. After the war traveled to Japan (1919), […]

Kuba Ludvik

Ludvik-Kuba-1863-–-1956-Treskavec-Monastery-1925-watercolor

Born in Podebrady on 16.04.1863, died in Prague on 30.11.1956. Ludvik Kuba was Czech landscape painter, musician, writer, collector of folk traditions and a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts. Ludvík Kuba studied to play the organ and privately learned drawing from Bohuslav Schnirch and Karel Liebscher. He was accepted to the Academy of […]

Cermak

Cermak, View of Berovo, ~1910 oil on canvas

Unidentified artist, likely Czech or Slovakian School. He visited Macedonia around 1910 where he made the cityscape of the town of Berovo. This painting has been signed and described at the back (Berovo, Macedonia) and was sold via the auction house Olaf Sigalas in Hildrishuizen, Germany on 22-07-2008.