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Jan Vilímek (German: Johann Vilímek; 1 January 1860 – 15 April 1938) was a Czech illustrator and painter.[1]
Life
[edit]Vilímek was born on 1 January 1860 in Žamberk, Bohemia, Austrian Empire. He created many portraits of famous personalities from Bohemia and other Slavic nations. During the 1880s, these portraits were regularly published in magazines such as Humoristické listy, Zlatá Praha and Světozor. In the 1890s, some of these illustrations were assembled into a book, České album. He died on 15 April 1938 in Vienna.
Gallery
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References
[edit]- ↑ Thieme, Ulrich; Becker, Felix (1936). Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart [General Dictionary of Artists from Antiquity to the Present]. Vol. 34. Leipzig: E.A. Seeman. p. 370. Retrieved 8 March 2026.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jan Vilímek.
- List of Vilímek's portraits on Czech Wikipedia (incomplete, sorted by source, with links to digitized images on Wikimedia Commons and external sites)
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