Otakar Sedloň
Otakar Sedloň | |
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academic painter | |
Parent(s) | Tomáš Sedloň, Josefa Čápek(ová) |
Otakar Sedloň (1885–1973) was a Czech realistic painter living in Prague
Otakar Sedloň was born on 30 August 1885 in Trpín in eastern Bohemia, formerly part of Austria-Hungary. Otakar attended primary school in Doudleby nad Orlicí and followed on with a high school education in Kostelec nad Orlicí, where he graduated in 1904. Then he started studying on Academy of Art in Prague, where graduated in 1908.
In the mid-1920s, he traveled quite a bit, visiting places like the coast along the Adriatic Sea,
After World War II and the communist revolution in Czechoslovakia in 1948, he was barred from Myslbek because of his antagonism against communist rule and so-called “socialistic realism”.
Otakar Sedloň died on 18 October 1973 and was buried in the family tomb in Vamberk, together with his mother and father.
Gallery
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Otakar with his nephew and nieces on walk in Poděbrady
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Otakar at nephew's wedding, Žamberk 1947
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Otakar in his studio, Prague circa 1950s