Antonín Procházka (Painter)

Place: Vážany

Born: 1882

Death: 1945

Biography:

Antonín Procházka was a Czech Modernist painter and graphic artist. He was born in Vážany, Czech Republic in 1882 and died in Brno, Czech Republic in 1945. He studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague with Vlaho Bukovac, Hanuš Schwaiger and Max Švabinský. In 1907, he and his classmate, Emil Filla, joined the group 'Osma' ('The Eight'), together with Bohumil Kubišta, Emil Artur Longen, Otakar Kubín, Bedřich Feigl, Max Horb and Willi Nowak. He became a drawing teacher at a girls' school in Brno in 1924. He was a member of the Mánes Union of Fine Arts from 1909 to 1911, and again from 1923 to 1929. He was posthumously awarded the title of 'Národní umělec' (People's Artist) from the Czechoslovak Republic in 1946. A street in Brno is named after him.