Vaclav Brozik
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Václav Brožík (5 March 1851 – 15 April 1901) was the greatest Czech academic painter.
Since 1868 he studied at the Academy of Arts in Prague, Dresden, and Munich. In 1879 he went on study journey to the Netherlands.
He married a daughter of a wealthy art dealer in Paris, who helped him achieve success in French high society. He divided his time between Prague, where he taught at the Academy since 1893, and Paris. In 1896 he was as the only Czech in history elected among the "forty immortals" in the French Académie des Beaux-Arts. He died suddenly of cardiac failure and is buried at the Cimetičre de Montmartre.
Work
- Eve of Lobkovic visiting her father in jail (1871)
- Marriage parrade of queen Kunhuta (1872)
- Parting of Premysl Ottokar II with his family before marching to Austria (1873)
- Messalina (1876)
- Marriage parade of queen Dagmar – Salon 1877
- The victim of religious fanatism – Salon 1877
- Marriage delegation of king Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary on court of Charles VII of France – Golden Award for foreign artists Salon 1878
- Master Jan Hus on Council of Constance (1883)
- Christopher Columbus on Spanish court (1885)
- Rustical genre – Salon 1890
- The belfry in Vilamé, Brittany (1893)
- Nocturno (1901)
- Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, on Prague Castle among his artists (1901)