By The Window (1937) by Antonín Prochazka
By The Window (1937) by Antonín Prochazka
- 🎨 Antonín Procházka was a Czech Modernist painter and graphic artist.
- 🖌️ He was associated with art movements such as Fauvism and Cubism.
- 👩🎨 He married the German painter Linka Scheithauer in 1911.
- 🏛️ Procházka became a drawing teacher at a girls’ school in Brno in 1924.
- 🖼️ He created a monumental painting titled “Prometheus Bringing Fire to Mankind” for Masaryk University in 1938.
- 🏛️ Procházka was a member of the Mánes Union of Fine Arts from 1909 to 1911 and again from 1923 to 1929.
- 🎨 He transitioned from Expressionism to Cubism and eventually developed his own form of Neo-Classicism.
- 🏆 He received the posthumous title of “Národní umělec” (People’s Artist) from the Czechoslovak Republic in 1946.
- 🖼️ Selected paintings by Procházka include “The Violinist,” “Husband and Wife,” “Wreath Making,” and “Prometheus.”
Available as a fine art print and as a stretched canvas panel (heavy fine art canvas stretched over 1.5 inch deep edge solid wood frame)
All prints are made using archival art stocks and UV pigment inks to give up to 200 years life. Prints are sold unframed and unmounted.
