How to Pronounce Věnceslav Černý
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Jan 27, 1865 Benátky nad Jizerou, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic Died on 15 Apr 1936 (aged 71)
Czech illustrator and painter
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About Věnceslav Černý
- Venceslav Cerný (27 January 1865 in Staré Benátky (part of Benátky nad Jizerou) - 15 April 1936 in Mladá Boleslav) was a Czech illustrator and painter. First, he studied at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts, later the Academy in Vienna.
- Alternately lived in Prague, Mladá Boleslav and Železnice.
- He was almost exclusively devoted to illustrating books (especially adventure books) and magazines (Svetozor, 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.
- Kvasnicka a Hampl, Alois Hynek, Toužimský etc.), and illustrated many books, especially those by Lidia Charskaya, František Josef Cecetka, Alois Jirásek, Karl May, Henryk Sienkiewicz.
- In the years 1893-1909 he illustrated sixteen books of Jules Verne.
