Ornamental Design with Birds and Lily
Karel Vitezslav Masek
c.1900
Medium
pen and brown ink
Dimensions
image: 16.4 x 18.8 cm (6 7/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Anne Baruch in honor of Mrs. Ellen Nickel
Accession Number
2004.109.30
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Karel Vitezslav Masek · 1865–1927
Karel Vítězslav Mašek (1865–1927) was a versatile Czech painter, architect, illustrator, and art professor whose career bridged academic traditions with emerging modernist tendencies in fin-de-siècle Europe. Born in Prague on September 1, 1865, he began his formal training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague under Antonín Lhota before transferring in 1884 to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. T...