Alfréd Justitz

Alfréd Justitz (19 July 1879 in Nová Cerekev – 9 February 1934 in Bratislava) was a Czech Modernist painter and illustrator.

[1] His first contact with art came in Jihlava, where he met the aspiring painter, Roman Havelka, who was two years his senior.

As a result, Justitz decided to pursue a creative career and began by studying architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague with Professor Jan Kotěra.

He became a trustee of the "ČeskoMoravská Kynologická Unie" (a kennel club), where he was put in charge of maintaining the breeding records.

She committed suicide by poisoning not long after the German Occupation in 1939, when the threat of the Nazis to Jews was obvious.