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Augustin Němejc (15 March 1861, Nepomuk – 16 August 1938, Plzeň) was a Czech painter, known for his portrayals of village life and costumes from the Plzeň Region.
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Augustin Němejc (15 March 1861, Nepomuk – 16 August 1938, Plzeň) was a Czech painter, known for his portrayals of village life and costumes from the Plzeň Region.
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Biography Němejc was born in Nepomuk in 1861, son of a butcher and brewer. In 1875, he was apprenticed to a watchmaker. After becoming a journeyman, he travelled extensively to improve his skills. This included a stay in Italy, where visits to art galleries inspired him to become a painter instead. With the patronage of a noblewoman, Vilemína Josefina z Auerspergu, he began taking lessons from František Sequens and Maximilian Pirner at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, He continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich with Alexander von Wagner, and then worked as a painter and art teacher in Plzeň. His painting "Hopeless Love" won a major award at the General Land Centennial Exhibition in 1891. It also earned him a one-year scholarship to study in Paris where he worked with Vojtěch Hynais, who had created the curtain for the Prague National Theater. In 1900, as a result of this experience, he was commissioned to create a curtain for the new Josef Kajetán Tyl Theatre. At about the same time, he painted lunettes at the recently completed West Bohemian Museum. He also created monumental paintings for the Higher Economic School, now a satellite institute of Charles…