Josefina Mařáková

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

Biography[]

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.

Her first exhibition came in 1897 with the Fine Arts Union in Prague. She was, however, always in poor health and generally lived in seclusion with her mother. She also helped out in her father's studio and, after his death, briefly had one of her own.

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.

Much of her work is in private collections, but may also be seen at the National Gallery in Prague and the municipal gallery in Litomyšl.

Source[]

• Veronika Hulíková, Pepa Mařák (1872?-1907), exhibition bulletin, National Gallery [1]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pepa Mařáková.

• Photograph of Pepa with her father, Julius