Frolka was born in Kněždub in South Moravia.
In 1914 he received a scholarship to study in Paris, but had to abandon this after six months at the outbreak of the World War I. Mobilized and sent to the Eastern Front, Frolka experienced a severe crisis of creativity after the end of the war.
[2] Frolka's painting was devoted to the "small moments of everyday life" and to the folk culture of Moravia and Slovakia.
[3] He became widely known as a painter of the Czech and Slovak national revival.
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