Adolf Kosárek

Adolf Kosárek (6 January 1830, Herálec – 29 October 1859, Prague) was a Czech landscape painter in the Realist style.

From an early age, he displayed an interest in art, but his father wanted him to enter the civil service, so he sent him to learn clerking from a relative.

After completing his primary education, he worked as a clerk until his drawings were noticed by Archbishop Schwarzenberg, who arranged for him to take the entrance exams at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, and provided him with a small stipend.

[1] He was accepted and, after preliminary studies, entered the landscape painting classes taught by Max Haushofer.

A painting by Josef Mánes (Švadlenka) shows Františka when she learned of his illness, while sewing her wedding dress.