František Mořic Nágl

František Mořic Nágl (28 May 1889, Kostelní Myslová – October 1944, Auschwitz) was a Czech landscape and genre painter of Jewish ancestry.

On the recommendation of his secondary school teachers, he was enrolled at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, where he studied from 1905 to 1908.

He drew his inspiration from the countryside and village life and his reputation as a "peasant painter" increased during the 1920s and 1930s.

For two years, they rented an apartment in Telč then, in 1941, he was arrested by the Gestapo while working at his easel in the town square.

[1] During his time at Theresienstadt, he continued to create drawings and watercolors, but no one knew of their existence until 1950, when they were discovered in the bricked-up attic of a house that was undergoing reconstruction.