Cyril Bouda - Prague, Czech Republic
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Mikolas Cyril Bouda (November 14, 1901 Kladno - August 29, 1984) was a Czech painter and illustrator and professor at Charles University.
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Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 11/05/2016
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He born in Kladno, but spent most of his life in Prague. Both his parents were artists Cyril Bouda; father was a school teacher of drawing, mother Anna was a sister of sculptors Stanislav and Vojtech Sucharda.
The godfather of Cyril Bouda was Mikolas Ales (
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Czril Bouda graduated in Prague in 1926. He finished studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where he was student of Max Švabinský (
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