Jan Vilímek was a Czech illustrator

Illustrator

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 and painter

Painting

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Vilímek was born on 1 January 1860 in Žamberk

Žamberk

Žamberk is a town in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 6,100 inhabitants.-Museums and Historic Sites:* Municipal Museum – Československé armády 472* House of Prokop Diviš – Helvíkovice 326* Litice - ancient castle...

, Bohemia

Bohemia

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. He created many portraits of famous personalities from Bohemia and other Slavonic

Slavic peoples

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 nations. During the 1880s, these portraits were regularly published in magazines such as Humoristické listy, Zlatá Praha and Světozor

Svetozor

Světozor was a Czech language illustrated magazine published in 19th and 20th century.Světozor was created by Pavel Josef Šafařík in 1834. Šafařík was inspired by the British penny press and the German Pfennig-Magazin...

. In the 1890s, some of these illustrations were assembled into a book, České album. He died on 15 April 1938 in Vienna

Vienna

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External links

• List of Vilímek's portraits on Czech Wikipedia (incomplete, sorted by source, with links to digitized images on Wikimedia Commons and external sites)
• Ottův slovník naučný