Adolf Liebscher

File:Adolf Liebscher 1887 Vilimek.png (1887).]]

Adolf Liebscher (11 March 1857, in Prague – 11 June 1919, in Potštejn) was a Czech history painter.{{cite web|title=Adolf Liebscher|url=http://www.sdruzeniliebscher.cz/umelci/adolf-liebscher|publisher=Sdružení Liebscher|accessdate=10 May 2014|language=Czech|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150214014501/http://www.sdruzeniliebscher.cz/umelci/adolf-liebscher|archivedate=14 February 2015}}

Life and work

After completing his education in the local schools, he went to Vienna, where he attended a three-year course for drawing teachers under Ferdinand Laufberger. He then spent six months preparing to enter a competition for the creation of decorations in the foyer at the National Theater. He received the Second Prize, and his drawings were used for the lunettes. Afterwards, he spent several months in Italy.

File:Adolf Liebscher - Dívčí válka.jpg, a Bohemian folktale; unknown year]]

Upon his return, he received a series of public commissions, including work at the Rudolfinum, the municipal union hall in Písek and the government office buildings in Vinohrady and Vyškov. He became a teacher at the Technical University in 1879, was promoted to Associate Professor in 1895 and was named a Professor in 1911.

In 1903, he exhibited a cycle of tempera paintings entitled "Czech Elegy", featuring an iconic portrait crowned with thorns, meant to symbolize the suffering of the Czech nation from the oppression of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. That same year, he painted a portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph.

In addition to his historical scenes, he produced folk-costume studies, altarpieces and illustrations, many of which appeared in the magazines Zlatá Praha and Světozor. Together with his brother Karel (who was also an artist), he created a panoramic mural, "The Swedes on the Charles Bridge", for the Mirror Maze at Petřín.

Gallery

File:Adolf Liebscher - Černohorská idyla.jpg|Montenegrin Idyll, unknown year

File:Adolf Liebscher - Zalíbení.jpg|Zalíbení ({{Lit|Both in love}}), unknown year

File:Adolf Liebscher - Dobytí Prahy Jiříkem Poděbradským roku 1448.jpg|Conquest of Prague by Jiřík Poděbrady in 1448, unknown year

File:Adolf Liebscher (1857 - 1919) - Pobřeží.jpg|Pobřeží ({{Lit|Coast}}), unknown year

File:Adolf Liebscher Dame mit Sonnenschirm 1884.jpg|Dame mit Sonnenschirm, 1884

File:Adolf Liebscher - Pastierske zjavenie - O 1021 - Slovak National Gallery.jpg|Pastierske zjavenie ({{Lit|Pastoral revelation}}), 1880

File:Adolf Liebscher - Kníže Oldřich a Božena.jpg|Prince Oldřich and Bozena, unknown year

File:Adolf Liebscher - Táboři dobývají Prachatic.jpg|Campers conquer Prachatice, unknown year (likely part of a series on the Hussite Wars)

File:Adolf Liebscher - Čechové na Baltu.jpg|Czechs in the Baltic, unknown year

File:Adolf Liebscher - Bitva na vrchu Vítkově.jpg|Battle of Vítkov Hill, unknown year (likely part of a series on the Hussite Wars)

File:Adolf Liebscher - Křižáci u Domažlic utíkají před blížícími se Husity.jpg|Crusaders near Domažlice flee from the approaching Hussites, unknown year (likely part of a series on the Hussite Wars)

File:Liebscher, Adolf - Útok husitských Pražanů.jpg|Attack of Hussite Praguers, unknown year (likely part of a series on the Hussite Wars)

File:Adolf Liebscher - Slavný vjezd krále Ladislava do Prahy r. 1453.jpg|The famous entry of King Ladislav into Prague in 1453, unknown year

File:A. Liebscher - Příjezd poselstva českého do Paříže r. 1457 (Obrázkové dějiny národa českého, 1893).png|Arrival of the Czech delegation in Paris, for an 1893 [https://kramerius5.nkp.cz/view/uuid:8f788a50-8e37-11dd-a0ff-000d606f5dc6?page=uuid:ffa7ad70-ef2b-11e6-a8e7-001018b5eb5c Pictoral History of the Czech Nation]

File:Adolf Liebscher - Volba Jiříka z Poděbrad za krále českého na radnici staroměstské dne 2. března r. 1458.jpg|Election of Jiřík of Poděbrady as King of Bohemia at the Old Town Hall on March 2, 1458, unknown year

File:Adolf Liebscher.jpg|Unknown title and year

File:Adolf Liebscher - Den.jpg|Day, unknown year

File:Adolf Liebscher Franz Joseph 1903.jpg|Portrait of the old Emperor Franz Joseph in the regalia of the Order of the Golden Fleece, 1903