Joža Uprka

Joža Uprka (26 October 1861, Kněždub – 12 January 1940, Hroznová Lhota) was a Czech painter and graphic artist whose work combines elements of Impressionism and Art Nouveau to document the folklife of Southern Moravia.

His father was an amateur painter, which inspired Joža and his brother, František, to pursue careers in art.

[1] After completing his primary education, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, where he studied with František Čermák.

After Čermák's death, he transferred to the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where he was one of the founders of a Czech student organization called "Škréta" (after Karel Škréta), a group that included Alfons Mucha, Antonín Slavíček, Pavol Socháň and Luděk Marold.

His folk paintings received a major showing in Uherské Hradiště at the "Výstava Slovácka 1937".