Alois Bubák, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Czech illustrator and painter
Date of Birth: 20-Aug-1824
Place of Birth: Kosmonosy, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic
Date of Death: 06-Mar-1870
Profession: painter
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Alois Bubák
- Alois Bubák (20 August 1824, Kosmonosy – 6 March 1870, Prague) was a Czech painter of landscapes and an illustrator. He was a son of a wood carver.
- After graduating from a gymnasium in Mladá Boleslav, he started to study at a college of theology in Prague on the wish of his parents.
- However, his talent and love of art soon brought him to the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.
- His teachers were Mr.
- Ruben, director of the academy, and Maximilian Joseph Haushofer, a landscape painter.
- Both appreciated his fast progress and his desire for an original artistic expression. He focused on landscape art.
- As a student, he traveled to the Krkonoše (Giant Mountains), the Alps and South-West Bohemia.
- He then successfully presented his works on several exhibitions.
- The famous ones included Landscape around the Elbe, Landscape under Studnicov, Gossau Lake and two paintings from Bad Ischl area.
- Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria bought his depiction of Holná pond in South Bohemia.
- Critics also appreciated his Plökenstein Lake in Bohemian Forest, for its realism, detail in the front and broad perspective in the rear.
- According to them, this painting overpassed those of his teacher Haushofer.
- Other famous landscapes included Rainy weather in the Alps, Bezdez Area, Around Trosky and others. Apart from creating oil paintings and aquarelles, he also taught painting at a business academy and at a high school for girls in Prague.
- He contributed many illustrations to Kvety and Svetozor magazines (e.g., Hvezda Summer Villa or Strakonice palace). He was very active and hard-working, painting and teaching tirelessly to support his large family.
- The persistent strain and a lack of rest contributed to his contracting of tuberculosis in the summer of 1868 and his premature death two years later.
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