Jaroslav Špillar

Jaroslav Špillar (11 October 1869 – 20 November 1917) was a Czech artist who specialized in painting the Chodové ("Rangers").

In 1885, he became one of the first students at the School of Applied Arts in Prague, where he studied under František Ženíšek and Jakub Schikaneder.

At first, he lived in Postřekov, then moved to the small village of Trávniky, where the local residents gave him the nickname Trávníček.

In 1904, Špillar began to display signs of a serious mental disorder and was eventually committed to a psychiatric hospital in Dobřany, where he died on 20 November 1917.

Most of his paintings and other ethnographic materials are kept in the Špillar Brothers Gallery [cs] at the Muzeum Chodska in Domažlice.