Mikoláš Aleš

by AdamStanislav - uploaded on December 19, 2017, 2:31 am

Mikoláš Aleš, 1912 photoportrait, taken by J. Schumpeter studio, Královské Vinohrady, now in public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ales_Portrait.jpg



Quoth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoláš_Aleš : Mikoláš Aleš (18 November 1852 – 10 July 1913), was a Czech painter. Aleš is estimated to have had over 5,000 published pictures; he painted for everything from magazines to playing cards to textbooks. His paintings were not publicized too widely outside Bohemia, but many of them are still available, and Mikoláš Aleš is regarded as one of the Czech Republic's greatest artists.