Antonín Procházka (painter)

He graduated from the gymnasium in Kroměříž then, in 1902, began studies at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague with Vlaho Bukovac, Hanuš Schwaiger and Max Švabinský.

Two years later, Herwarth Walden invited him, Filla, Kubin and Vincenc Beneš to participate in the Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon (Autumn Salon) in Berlin, where he displayed a Cubist still-life.

[1] There, in 1938, he created a monumental painting, "Prometheus Bringing Fire to Mankind" for Masaryk University.

During the German Occupation, he provided illustrations for a collection of folk ballads by Karel Jaromír Erben.

In 1946, he received the posthumous title of "Národní umělec [cs]" (People's Artist) from the Czechoslovak Republic.