Janko
Alexy, Piestany
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He is a professor of drawing for little children. Some of the
childrens' pictures were bought by the Bratislava Museum.
Otokar
Cila, Nová Paka
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During the World War in the intervals between fightings, he painted
the churches in Russia and pictures on the war scenery. In 1920 he
was sent by the Czechoslovakian Government to China and India to
study the monuments of arts and painting. In Bombay he worked as
illustrator for the review "Times of India". He returned with a large
number of exotic sketches, studies and sceneries which had been
bought partly by the Czechoslovakian Government. Another part is in
private possession. In 1933 he painted the picture "Starodruzinici"
Petar
Dobrovic, Belgrade
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1910-1914 Russian Academy in Paris; 1914-1917 in Budapest as an
independent modern painter; 1918 sentenced to death for high treason;
October 1918 pardoned; 1919 Paris, participated to the Yugoslavian
Exhibition of Art, 1920 Zurich, Belgrade, 1924.
Leopold
Gottlieb, Paris-Montrouge
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He was Professor of the Art School Bezalel in Jerusalem and he opened
during the war a great exhibition in Zurich, Berne (Switzerland), in
Vienna (Austria). In 1928 he had an exhibition in
Génèva, and 1930 in Paris. In the Museum of Cracow are
about 230 of his drawings, a picture "Jeu de Plumes" is in Paris. His
drawings are also in the Albertina, Vienna and in the Museum of
Jerusalem.
Jaroslav
Henevkovsky, Prague-Bubenec
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He has exhibited in London (Leicester Gallery) in 1922; and he made
two trips to East-India. For some time he has been holding an oil
painting class at Rabindranath Tagore's School. He has formed a new
theory of light regarding artistic purposes: the invention of the
"relative colours" for transparent oil painting (Czechoslovakian
patent).
Bohumil
Hradecny, Prague
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He is a prominent painter of landscapes and animal pictures and he is
scientifically well acquainted with occultism, mysticism, and
alchemy.
Ludvik
Kuba, Prague
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As painter he had much success showing his pictures at international
exhibitions in the capitals of European countries. The Modern Gallery
in Prague owns several of his pictures and also the Government bought
his well known collection of pictures representing the Slavonic
Lusatia in Germany in today's state.
Louis
(Markous Ludwik) Marcoussis, Paris
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When he was 20 years old he came to Paris where he lived and worked.
He participated from the very beginning in the cubist movement and he
served from 1914 in the French army.
Robert
Maurer, Vienna ->
He worked with his father by whom he received his first instruction
and he restored the picture gallery in Sibiu, Transsylvania in 1922.
He patented his discovery to examine pictures by ultra violet
rays.
Wanda
Melcer, Mokotow, Warsaw
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She gave birth to two children in August 1932: a boy and girl
(twins). Her first poetries were printed in "Sfinks" in 1914 and her
first exhibition of portraits was in 1918. Afterwards ceased to
paint.
Samuel
Mützner, Bucharest
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He studied painting in Munich from 1900 to 1902. An exhibition of his
works inspired by Japan was held in the Ralston Gallery of New York,
Fifth Avenue, in 1915. In 1915-1920 he worked in Puerto Rico and
Venezuela. There are in New York, in San Juan of Puerto Rico and
specially in Caracas a great number of his paintings. In Caracas
there is a large rural portrait of President Gomez.
Antonin
Ruzicka, Prague
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He introduced in about 1.500 classes of the National Schools in
Czechoslovakia a new system of drawing which is based on special
perspective constructions. Eleven year old children are taught
correct perspective drawings.
Jonas
Sileika, Kaunas
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During the World War worked for Lithuanian relief in U.S.A. and
Moscow, Russia. In Lithuania he helped to organize an Art School at
Kaunas of which he is at present teacher for drawing and painting. In
1920 he received $ 200,-- as prize for an oil-painting of portrait of
"Zemaite", a Lithuanian writer at Chicago. His pictures are exhibited
in permanent Art Gallery of Ciurlionis at Kaunas.
Marie
Urbanova-Zahradnicka, Prague
She is a painter of portraits, still-lifes, decoration of panneaux,
decorative art in churches: Prague (Vyshrad), Kutná Hora,
Grunty, Hradec Králové. She works in collaboration with
her husband who was a painter too.
Louis
Vacátko, Praha-Veleslavinova and Schloßhof
Hrubá skala, Turnau
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Pictures painted by him were sold to King Carol of Rumania for
Sinaia, to the White Cross at Madrid, to President Masaryk for the
castle of Prague and also to many private castles. He is the creator
of transcendental naturalism (between impressionism and futuristic
painting).
