Karel Javůrek (30 July 1815, Prague – 23 March 1909, Prague) was a Czech history painter.
He was the son of a rich industrialist, but drifting his dad at an beforehand age. His first studies were when Josef Danhauser in Vienna, then he returned to Prague to study in the same way as František Tkadlík and, later, Christian Ruben at the Academy of Fine Arts. He after that participated in the revolutionary comings and goings of 1848.
From 1850 to 1852, he studied in Antwerp below Gustave Wappers then, in 1855, served as an apprentice at the studios of Thomas Couture in Paris. He returned to Prague and was a regular exhibitor at the art shows in the Rudolfinum.
He produced hundreds of paintings, covering virtually all period of Czech history, as competently as works in imitation of religious themes. He and Jaroslav Čermák are considered to be the founders of Czech historical painting, but he lived long satisfactory to look his works labelled as “old-fashioned”.
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