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Original pencil drawing by Otakar Nejedly, signed by the artist. 32 x 23 cm, in fine condition. Otakar Nejedlý ( March 14, 1883 , Roudnice nad Labem June 17, 1957 , Prague ) was a Czech painter. Life He attended the gymnasium in Roudnice , and even as a student of the lower classes he had a great interest in painting, for which his parents also understood. He was also supported by his friend Angelo Zeyer (nephew of Julio Zeyer ), student of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, pupil of Václav Bro ík . At the age of fifteen, O. Nejedlý went to Prague, where he wanted to study at the Academy of Fine Arts, but was not accepted. So he applied to Ferdinand Engelmüller's private landscape painting school , which he attended for three years. His other teacher and friend was Antonín Slavíček ; they painted together for more than a year in the place of Slavíčk's landscape inspiration, Kameničkyin the Highlands. After returning to Prague (1905), Nejedlý became fully involved in artistic and social life, entered SVU Mánes and traveled a lot, mainly in southern Europe. He collaborated mainly with Vincenzo Bene , whose influence on Cubism is also evident in Nejedlý's paintings from that time. In 1907, he met the budding painter Jaroslav Hněvkovský in Rome , and they considered going on a major painting trip to India and Ceylon . Already three Sundays after this decision, they left for Sicily, from where they wanted to leave by ship for Colombo in Ceylon. However, they had to postpone the trip several times for various reasons, mainly due to the illness and death of Nejedlý's mother. It wasn't until September 12, 1909 that they finally set sail. They left full of hopes and plans, but mostly naive ideas, and without the basic prerequisites money and knowledge of English. In Ceylon they were poor, often suffering from hunger, but they still painted. Hoping for a better livelihood, they went to South India with idealistic notions that they would be employed by some wealthy Maharaja . INHowever, the Keralites lived only among the lowest caste natives , first in fishing villages on the coast, later in the mountains where they lived by hunting. Nejedlý could hardly bear the hardships of such a living, he even fell ill with malaria , so he returned home in 1911. Hněvkovský remained in India for another two years. Shortly after the war (1919), O. Nejedlý, together with Vincenc Bene , was sent to the battlefields of the First World War in France to paint the places where the Czechoslovak legionnaires fought . Their paintings were exhibited in Topič's salon in Prague (1920). In 1925, Nejedlý was appointed professor of the special landscape school at the Academy of Fine Arts , and he is one of the best and at the same time the most popular teachers of this school. "Oťas", as everyone called him, tried to develop the talents of his students and never limited their search for an independent artistic path. On the now almost legendary study tours he took with his students during the holidays, there was always a fertile and inspiring environment. They mainly went to the south of Europe, to Corsica , France , Italy and Dalmatia . In the summer, he traveled with his pupils to Bohemia, e.g. to Hruba Skála, Hluboka, or to the Bohemian Paradise. Nejedlý loved the south, but dedicated most of his work to the Czech landscape ( Turnovsko , Orlicko , Táborsko ). His paintings are characterized by color, the influence of romanticism , impressionism and expressionism can also be traced in them , but he created his own, distinctive artistic expression. His paintings are represented in the National Gallery in Prague , the Moravian Gallery in Brno , the Gallery of the Capital City of Prague , the Gallery of Modern Art in Roudnice nad Labem , the Regional Gallery in Liberec , the East Bohemian Gallery in Pardubice ,North Bohemian Gallery of Fine Arts in Litoměřice , Art Gallery in Karlovy Vary , etc. N° de ref. del artículo 23376
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