Jan Konůpek: From the Life of the Old Slavs - The Czechs, 1916

Jan Konůpek was born in 1883 in Mladá Boleslav, he died in Prague in 1950. He originally studied architecture, but Pavel Janák and V.V. They influenced Štech to study art school. In 1911 he co-founded the group of symbolist graphic artists SURSUM. His graphics are inspired by mysticism and visionary. His works from the beginning of the 20th century, which are influenced by symbolism and stylized according to Art Nouveau Klimt ornaments, are considered the most important. He participated in the illustration of symbolist and classical literature (K. J. Erben: Kytice, K. H. Mácha: May), he also created separate graphic cycles devoted to a large part of Czech and world literature. Many of his works were inspired by Gothic and Baroque architecture and the mysticism of the Middle Ages.