Josefina Mařáková

Josefina Mařáková, known as Pepa (19 March 1872, Vienna – 19 June 1907 Prague) was a Czech painter who specialized in caricatures and figure painting.

She was born to the Czech landscape painter, Julius Mařák, during a period when he was working in Vienna, and originally spoke only German, although she took an early interest in her Czech heritage.

In addition to her father, she received lessons from František Dvořák, Maximilian Pirner and Václav Brožík.

She was mainly devoted to creating figurative works in a decadent, Symbolist style, but also produced some portraits of notable personalities, including the painter, Otakar Lebeda, the politician František Ladislav Rieger, the family of poet Adolf Heyduk and her father's patron, Josef Hlávka.

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