Jan Zrzavý

Zrzavý was born on 5 November 1890 in Vadín in Bohemia (today a part of Okrouhlice in the Czech Republic).

He first visited France in 1907, returning to Paris and Brittany frequently until 1939, but maintaining close links to his homeland.

[2] Zrzavý was a key member of the Czech, and more broadly European, modernism movement the early part of the 20th century.

Throughout his life he was also inspired by spectacular landscapes, both abroad (France, Italy, and Greece) as well as in his native country (Vodňany, Okrouhlice, Prague).

He was admired by and written about by one of the founders of the Czech artistic movement called Poetism, Karel Teige.