(b Prague, 7 Aug 1865; d Prague, 1 Dec 1898). Czech painter and illustrator. He studied (1881–2) at the Academy in Prague and then (1882–7) at the Akademie in Munich under Ludwig von Löfftz (1845–1910) and the Greek painter Nikolaos Gysis. In Munich he was a member of the Verein Tschechischer Künstler, and he also embarked on a career as an illustrator, contributing drawings and sketches in various media to the German periodical Fliegende Blätter and the Czech magazine Zlatá Praha among others (original drawings in Prague, N.G., Convent of St Agnes). On his return to Prague he studied (1887–9) at the Academy under Maximilián Pirner and simultaneously at the School of Decorative Art. He first exhibited his work publicly in 1888, showing to great acclaim a carefully observed but attractively stylized treatment of an urban genre subject, the Egg Market in Prague (1888; Prague, N.G., Convent of St Agnes).