The painter Julius Mařák (1832–1899) was born in Litomyšl 190 years ago. In 1860, he relocated to Vienna, earning a living as an illustrator, graphic artist, and drawing teacher. In the years 1887–1899, as the head of the special landscape painting studio at the Prague’s Academy of Fine Arts, he trained a wide array of talented landscape painters, such as František Kaván, Antonín Slavíček, Otakar Lebeda, and many others. The annual plein air painting trips of the ‘Mařák group’ to the surroundings of Prague, most often to Zákolany and Okoř, were legendary.
Šumava Virgin Forest in a Storm was commissioned by the Ministry of Cult and Education and Mařák sought inspiration during his trips to Horní Vltavice in the autumn of 1891 and to Zátoň and Lenora in July 1892.
Šumava Virgin Forest in a Storm was commissioned by the Ministry of Cult and Education and Mařák sought inspiration during his trips to Horní Vltavice in the autumn of 1891 and to Zátoň and Lenora in July 1892.
Šumava
Virgin Forest in a Storm is
displayed at the permanent exhibition 1796–1918: Art of the Long Century in the Trade Fair Palace.
