Personalitatea zilei

 1883 Albert Servaes, Belgian painter who died on 19 April 1966. He took evening classes at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Ghent (1901-1902), but he was mainly self-taught. In 1905 he settled in Laethem-Saint-Martin and painted landscapes, farmers, harvests and biblical scenes. During his formative years he was influenced by...

1882 Emil Filla, Czech painter, printmaker, sculptor, writer and collector, who died on 07 (06?) October 1953. After a short period at a business school and in an insurance office in Brno, he became a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (1903). In 1904 he won the Academy’s first prize. At the end of the year he set out on a...