Věnceslav Černý

Who was Věnceslav Černý?

Věnceslav Černý was a Czech illustrator and painter.

First, he studied at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts, later the Academy in Vienna. Alternately lived in Prague, Mladá Boleslav and Železnice. He was almost exclusively devoted to illustrating books and magazines. A very high percentage of his works are related to historical battle themes and mediaeval civilisation in the form of drawings and large paintings.

He was a popular illustrator of many publishing houses in Prague, and illustrated many books, especially those by Lidija Aleksejevna Čarská, František Josef Čečetka, Alois Jirásek, Karl May, Henryk Sienkiewicz. In the years 1893-1909 he illustrated sixteen books of Jules Verne.