Josef Navrátil

Josef Navrátil studied at Academy of Fine Arts, Prague. The recorded working language is Czech. The field of work recorded is painting, landscape painting and Romanticism. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Places of work recorded in the authority are Prague. Work by Josef Navrátil is recorded in the collections of Belvedere, Slovak National Gallery, Moravian Gallery in Brno and National Gallery Prague.

Born in Slaný, Navrátil was trained by his father as a decorator, and after further study at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague became a painter-decorator. He also took numerous trips abroad, particularly to Switzerland.

His wall paintings from this early period still decorate different objects in Prague (including Prague Castle), the Postal Museum in Liběchov, Ploskovice, Jirny (with its famous Alpine room) and elsewhere. On the imperial castle in Zákupy when editing as the future seat of the emperor in the years 1850 - 1853 with the help of assistants decorated the 20 rooms historical and genre paintings, ornaments, and allegorical works. His fame grew, and in 1850 he became president of the Union of Artists. Eleven years later, he had to leave because partially paralyzed as a result of a stroke. He lived in poverty.

Navrátil was superb landscape painter, but most of his work focussed on still lifes and figurative paintings and sketches. In his paintings there is a mixing of various styles of sketches, which gets to the point of impressionism.