Josef Šejnost

Josef Šejnost (30 May 1878 – 9 February 1941) was a Czech sculptor and coin designer, specialising in low relief work.

He had a long-running project (1929 to 1939) on a hill of Křemešník where he intended to establish a coin museum and his main atelier in a romantic folly castle, designed and built by his architect friend Kamil Hilbert.

[5] Originally buried in Prague, he was reinterred in the cemetery at Pelhřimov in the 21st century to be close to his home town.

The younger son, Zdeněk Šejnost, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (AVU) and became also a sculptor.

He and his brother tried to continue the "Windmill House" project after his father's death despite the communistic regime in the country.