Emanuel Krescenc Liška

Not long after he was born, the family moved to Milevsko, where his father had found work as a farm manager.

[1] As soon as he was old enough, he began taking art lessons, but had to support himself by tutoring and working as an assistant at the local gymnasium.

[1] In 1879, he and Jakub Schikaneder were chosen to decorate the Royal Box at the National Theatre, but their work was destroyed by fire only two years later.

Liška used his commission to attend classes with Otto Seitz at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.

A mural of the Crucifixion in the chapel at the Klar Institute [cs] (a charity for the blind) resulted in a grant that enabled him to spend two years in Italy.