This drawing is called ¨Crucifixion¨. It shows the connection between me and my religion at a young age. I was 8 years old. I used watercolor, crayon, and pencil on paper. To most people, this piece is my earliest known.
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This is the fire that destroyed Viennaś Ring Theater. It killed about four hundred people in 1881. With this theater being a large client of Vienna’s Kautsky-Brioschi-Burghardt theatre design company, where I was apprenticed, I lost my job as a scenery painter. Many others were let go as well. I had only worked there for about a year.
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This is a photo of me and my fellow classmates at the Munich Academy of Arts. I am the man close to the front in profile off to the right. The photograph also includes Karel Mašek, on the right, and Luděk Marold, standing, and David Widhopff, seated in the center, and Leonid Pasternak, also standing.The Munich Academy of Arts was a very important school at the time. Munich in general was a great arts community.
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This is my first book that I illustrated, Contes d' Armor, in 1891. Armand Colin, the publisher of the book, was founded in 1870. The company was among the first to create education manuals when it became important in France. After that I started to receive more commissions as an illustrator. The commissions included Charles Seignobos’s Scènes et Episodes de l’Histoire d’Allemagne and others.
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This is the poster I created for 'Gismonda', featuring Sarah Burnhardt. She was a famous stage actress from France. Burnhardt was so satisfied with my design that I signed a six year contract with her. But not only did I get a contract with the actress, I also gained more publicity that made me widely known. I also received more commissions.
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This is a pastel drawing of my wife, Maruška. This was a piece that was made before we were married and when we were spending much time together. She was 22 and an art student and was taking art classes with me while she was visiting Paris for a month with her relatives. On June 10, three years later, we were married. We had our honeymoon in South Bohemia.
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This is an advertisement for my piece, 'Friendship'. It was for 'The New York Daily News' when I traveled to America with support from Baroness Rothschild and made the front-page on the newspapers. While I was there, I made portraits to try and get more money to fulfill my dream of creating my life's masterpiece, the Slav Epic. While in America, I received funding from Charles Richard Crane, and was able to start my series of paintings.
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This is a postcard from New York after my second trip to America. I was teaching classes at the New York School of Applied Design for Women. The school has various courses in the arts. They were very popular, both men and women came on the Tuesdays in which the classes were held. On my trip I also met the President Theodore Roosevelt and his family.
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This is a photo of Maruška and my new daughter, Jaroslava. She was born in New York, on March 15. Seven years after I began working on the Slav Epic, Maruška gave birth to my new son in Prague on March 12. He became a novelist when he was older. Jiří, which was what we named him, also tried to bring attention to my art.
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These are Czechoslovakia's first postage stamps that I designed in 1918. That was also when I presented the finishing of two more additions to the Slav Epic series. A year after that, the 100 crown banknote that I designed for the Bank of Czechoslovakia was released. My other crown notes designs were released later between 1919 and 1931. They included the 1,000, 500, 100, 50, 20, 10, and 5 crown bank notes.
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