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Havránek, Bedrich
(b Prague, 4 Jan 1821; d Prague, 1 March 1899). Bohemian painter and draughtsman. He studied at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts under Antonín Mánes from 1836 to 1842, and between 1845 and 1847 under Max Haushofer. The idylls of Biedermeier painting seem to have given direction to his work throughout his life. By the end of the 1840s, however, he responded to the current fashion for landscape with grandiose, picturesque subjects (e.g. Mountain Lake in the Bohemian Forest, 1848; Prague, N.G., Convent of St Agnes). He was one of the first landscape painters to depict Bohemia and Moravia systematically, cultivating the tradition of townscape paintings and also documenting contemporary life, especially in Prague.
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