Alois Beer

Alois Beer (February 27, 1833 – October 10, 1897) was a writer and painter born in Bohemia in the Austrian Empire.

He then returned to the Austrian Empire and went to Venice, Verona and Milan and Ljubljana.

One of his most famous works is of the major fire which broke out in Dobruška on October 7, 1866.

Approximately 3500 pages of his text and images are held in the Dobruška Museum of Natural History.

His texts and pictures of individual buildings, local customs, events and festivals, trade practices and tools, offer significant details of everyday life in that region in the 19th century.