Statue of Josef Mánes in Prague / Pomník Josefa Mánesa v Praze
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A bronze statue of famous Czech painter Josef Mánes is placed on Palachovo square, in small park near Mánes Bridge and Rudolfinum Music Hall. Statue was created by sculptor Bohumil Kafka (1878-1942) in 1930.
Waymark Code: WM684H
Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 04/20/2009
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Josef Mánes (1820-1871) was famous Czech romantic painter and illustrator, who worked chiefly in Prague. He painted portraits and genre scenes with detailed representations of Czech costumes. Mánes also illustrated the medallions (thumb sketches) of calendar disc of the Astronomical Clock (Horologe) on the Old Town Square hall, the story of Dr. Faust (1858) and Czech folksongs (1856-1862).
Josef Mánes was a versatile artist: history painting and portraits, idyllic scenes from the life at the manor, studies of villagers, folk costumes and illustrations of folk songs, as well as landscape painting. He practised two usually separate approaches - in his work intimacy and monumentality co-exist side by side, while his Romantic ideas are rendered with a good deal of realism. His specific talents' endowed contemporaneous genre painting with high artistic qualities. In his genre pictures Mánes was true to the so-called second Rococo with its wealth of metaphors, allegories and witty insinuations.