Václav Brožík

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Václav Brožík

Václav Brožík (5 March 1851 – 15 April 1901) was a 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, Hermine one of the five daughters of a prominent art dealer, Charles Sedelmeyer, 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 elected as a foreign member and the successor of John Millais in the French Académie des beaux-arts. He died suddenly of cardiac failure and is buried at the Cimetière de Montmartre.

Work

Jan Hus at the council of Constance painted by Václav Brožík. Oil on canvas
Columbian Issue of 1893. Image is taken from painting by Brožík
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  1. Eve of Lobkovic Visiting Her Father in Jail (1871)
  2. Marriage Parade of Queen Kunhuta (1872)
  3. Parting of Premysl Ottokar II With His Family Before Marching to Austria (1873)
  4. Messalina (1876)
  5. Marriage Parade of Queen Dagmar – Salon 1877
  6. The Victim of Religious Fanaticism – Salon 1877
  7. Marriage Delegation of King Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary on Court of Charles VII of France – Golden Award for foreign artists Salon 1878
  8. Master Jan Hus on Council of Constance (1883)
  9. Christopher Columbus on Spanish Court (1885)
  10. Rustical Genre – Salon 1890
  11. The Belfry in Vilamé, Brittany (1893)
  12. Nocturno (1901)
  13. Tu Felix Austria Nube (The wedding of the children of Wladislaw II, King of Bohemia with the grandchildren of Emperor Maximilian I. of Habsburg
  14. Lady and a greyhound (1895–1897)
  15. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, on Prague Castle Among His Artists (1901)
  16. Emma Countess Czernin v. Chudenitz u. Morzin, born Countess v. Orsini u. Rosenberg (1897)

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