František Tkadlík
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František Tkadlík (or Franz Kadlik; 23 November 1786, Prague – 16 January 1840, Prague) was a Czech portrait painter and draftsman.[1]
Life
He was the son of an innkeeper and displayed an early aptitude for drawing. Two of the boarders at his parents' inn were drawing teachers and they encouraged him in his desire to be an artist. Wealthy relatives were won over to the cause and he was soon enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, later attending Charles University, where he studied philosophy.
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After completing his work in Vienna, he received an Imperial Pension courtesy of Klemens von Metternich, who had been a regular visitor at the Czernins.[1] He spent several years studying in Rome, where he was influenced by the Nazarene movement. He returned to Vienna in 1832, then moved on to Prague in 1836, when he became the first Czech to be appointed Director of the Art Academy. Josef Mánes and Karel Javůrek were among his best-known students there.
References
- ^ a b c Rudolf Müller (1881), "Kadlik, Franz", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 14, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 785–794
Further reading
- Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich: Kadlik, Franz
- Eva Petrová: František Tkadlík, Československé akademie věd, Prague 1960. [1]
- "Kadlík (Tkadlík) Franz". In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Vol. 3, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1965, p. 167.
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