Věnceslav Černý
Illustration — Saint Wenceslas Rises from the Mountain at the Head of the Knights of Blanice (1898) • Illustration — Lazebnice převáží krále Václava Věnceslav Černý (27 January 1865 in Staré Benátky (part of Benátky nad Jizerou) - 15 April 1936 in Mladá Boleslav) was a Czech illustrator and painter. He studied at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts, later the Academy in Vienna. Alternately lived in Prague, Mladá Boleslav and Železnice.
Also recorded as Venceslav Cerny
Věnceslav Černý
Věnceslav Černý (1865–1936) · National Library of the Czech Republic · Public domain
- Born
- 1865 · Benátky nad Jizerou.
- Died
- 1936 · Mladá Boleslav.
- Nationality
- Austria–Hungary · Czechoslovakia
- Occupation
- painter · writer · illustrator · puppet designer · artist
- Fields
- visual arts · painting · book illustration · puppetry
- Education
- Academy of Fine Arts and Prague
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Illustration — Saint Wenceslas Rises from the Mountain at the Head of the Knights of Blanice (1898) • Illustration — Lazebnice převáží krále Václava Věnceslav Černý (27 January 1865 in Staré Benátky (part of Benátky nad Jizerou) - 15 April 1936 in Mladá Boleslav) was a Czech illustrator and painter. He studied at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts, later the Academy in Vienna. Alternately lived in Prague, Mladá Boleslav and Železnice.
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He was almost exclusively devoted to illustrating books (especially adventure books) and magazines (Světozor, Zlatá Praha). A very high percentage of his works are related to historical battle themes and mediaeval civilisation in the form of drawings and large paintings. He was a popular illustrator of many publishing houses in Prague (e.g. Kvasnička a Hampl, Alois Hynek, Toužimský etc.), and illustrated many books, especially those by Lidia Charskaya, František Josef Čečetka, Alois Jirásek, Karl May, Henryk Sienkiewicz. In the years 1893-1909 he illustrated sixteen books of Jules Verne. Černý also illustrated various cultural events that took place in the village where he lived.
Věnceslav Černý is recorded with the occupation puppet designer. Recorded with the occupation visual artist. Recorded as painter, writer, illustrator, puppet designer and artist.
Věnceslav Černý - Death of Velek Koudelník z Březnice in the battle of Trnava (F. J. Čečetkaː Sirotci, 1926)
Věnceslav Černý · Public Domain - Kramerius Digital Libraryː https: kramerius5.nkp.cz/view/uuid:0952f110-938a-11e7-ab16-005056827e52?page=uuid:4f63c180-caf7-11e7-9c14-005056827e51
Věnceslav Černý - Bitva u Vogastisburku roku 630 (Obrázkové dějiny národa českého, 1893)
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1865
Věnceslav Černý born at Benátky nad Jizerou.
1936
Věnceslav Černý died at Mladá Boleslav.
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Benátky nad Jizerou.
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