Jan Vilímek

File:Jan Vilimek 1903.png

Jan Vilímek, from Zlatá Praha (issue of January 16, 1903)

Jan Vilímek (German: Johann Vilimek; 1 January 1860 – 15 April 1938) was a Czech illustrator and painter.

Vilímek was born on 1 January 1860 in Žamberk, Bohemia. He created many portraits of famous personalities from Bohemia and other Slavonic nations. During the 1880s, these portraits were regularly published in magazines such as Humoristické Listy, Zlatá Praha and Světozor. In the 1890s, some of these illustrations were assembled into a book, České album. He died on 15 April 1938 in Vienna.

• Jan Vilímek - Bedřich Smetana.jpg

  Bedřich Smetana

• Jan Vilímek - Jan Neruda.jpg

  Jan Neruda

• Jan Vilímek - Ignacy Jan Paderewski.jpg

  Ignaz Paderewski

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)