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Under the Hapsburg rule, the Czechs were forbidden to organise politically. As a result, patriotic sentiments had to be disguised and expressed through seemingly safe outlets. The gymnastic association Sokol ('falcon' in…

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2020-03-11

by Czech artist © Barbara Issa Wagner

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2020-03-08

Vintage illustrations by Czech illustrator and noted paleoartist Zdeněk Burian (1905-1981).

1. Basilosaurus from "The Age of Monsters" (1966) by Josef Augusta.
2. Elasmosaurus from "Prehistoric Sea Monsters" (1964) by Josef Augusta.

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2020-03-04

Hello I'm Ishmi and I draw a lot of smelly, edgy men with their hands on their faces, seriously, I do. I am a Pan, Czech-Mexican artist! I love fantasy, D&D and aforementioned edgy men!

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2020-03-03

Jaroslav Panuška was born in 1872. Although considered a master of landscape painting, Panuška had a penchant for the dark & strange and was inspired by Czech fairy tales.

Baba Yaga
Vampire
Vampire Leaves
Water Sprite

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2020-03-03

Tavík František Šimon, 1877 – 1942, Czech painter, etcher, and woodcut artist, The Paris stock exchange

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2020-03-02

Tavík František Šimon, 1877 – 1942, Czech painter, etcher, and woodcut artist, Notre-Dame de Paris in the Morning

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2020-03-02

💦 © Jiří "Georg" Dokoupil (Czech-German painter and graphic artist, b. 1954) 💦

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2020-03-02

Mucha’s daughter, Jaroslava, was a model for several of his works. Here we see her in this poster for the Slav Epic exhibition in Brno in 1930. The mythical figure in the background is Svantovít, the pagan Czech god of…

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2020-02-21

Sooooo recently i was on a trip to a town near the czech border. And by near i mean its a five minute walk to the village on the czech side. I go there for holidays quite often and always enjoy a bit of the good old czech culture and.... food ofc hehe ;)).

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2020-02-17

Already, the newly-formed Czechoslovak state that Mucha had long dreamed of was in danger from rising tensions in the region that ultimately led to the First World War.⁠
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In “The Threat” (1912) Mucha shows a young girl…

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2020-02-14

I collect different editions of Alice, for their illustrations. One of my favorite illustrators is the Czech artist Markéta Prachatická, born in 1953. (She has also worked on Hans Christian Andersen and Jaroslav Seifert.)

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2020-02-13

Czech artist Maxmilián Pirner was born 1853. If it’s not already obvious, he had a penchant for mythology, the strange, & the macabre.

The End of All Things (detail)
Hekate
The Fairy Funeral
Death

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2020-02-13

Maria Young Girl In A Moravian Costume

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2020-02-12

February 11, 1905, birthday of Czech painter, book illustrator and palaeoartist Zdeněk Michael František Burian, whose work played a central role in the development of palaeontological reconstruction 🦖🖌️🎨https://t.co/8JBM9ZPWHC

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2020-02-13

Alphonse Mucha - Slav Epic / Video tour of the uber large works he created seen in Prague's National Gallery / The Slav Epic is a cycle of 20 large canvases painted by Czech Art Nouveau painter between 1910 and 1928. https://t.co/WZ49PcwjMK

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