List of People From Prague - The Arts

The Arts

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) — composer; some of his best opera successes were during his time in Prague
  • Hans Hampel (1822–1884) — composer
  • Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884) — composer; lived and died in Prague
  • Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) — composer; lived most of his life in Prague
  • Bedřich Münzberger (1828–1946) - architect
  • Josef Václav Myslbek (1848–1922) — sculptor; born in Prague and creator of the Wenceslas Monument in Prague's Wenceslas Square
  • Leoš Janáček (1854–1928) — composer; studied in Prague
  • Alfons Mucha (1860–1939) — painter and decorative artist; spent last decades of his life in Prague
  • Jože Plečnik (1872–1957) — Slovene architect; built several churches and parts of the Prague Castle
  • Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) — poet; born and studied in Prague
  • Emmy Destinn (1878–1930) — operatic soprano; born in Prague
  • Jaroslav Hašek (1883–1923) — writer, humorist and satirist; lived in Prague for most of his life, described the city in many stories
  • Franz Kafka (1883–1924) — German-language fiction writer; born in Prague
  • Karel Čapek (1890–1938) — writer; lived and died in Prague
  • Jaroslav Seifert (1901–1986) — poet and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1984); lived in Prague
  • Vladimír Holan (1905–1980) — poet; born, lived and died in Prague
  • Jan Werich (1905–1980) — actor, singer, playwright, writer; born, lived and died in Prague
  • Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997) — writer; lived and died in Prague
  • Lída Baarová (1914–2000) — actress; lived and died in Prague
  • Gene Deitch (born 1924) — American-born animator; lives in Prague
  • Milan Kundera (born 1929) — writer; studied, lectured at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
  • Jiří Suchý (born 1931) — actor, singer, playwright, writer; born and lives in Prague
  • Miloš Forman (born 1932) — film director, actor and screenwriter — won the Academy Award for Best Director for his feature films Amadeus (1984) and One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975); studied and lived in Prague
  • Jan Saudek (born 1935) — art photographer; born and lives in Prague
  • Václav Havel (1936–2011) — dramatist, writer and politician — President of Czechoslovakia (its last; 1989–1992); and President of the Czech Republic (its first; 1993–2003); born and lived in Prague
  • Jiří Menzel (born 1938) — film director (his first feature film, Closely Watched Trains (1966) won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film); born in Prague
  • Karel Gott (born 1939) — singer; lives in Prague
  • Ivan Kral (born 1948) — guitarist, singer, record producer and film director; born in Prague
  • Robert Vano (born 1948) — art photographer; lives in Prague
  • Zuzana Navarová (1959–2004) — singer; lived and died in Prague
  • Karel Roden (born 1962) — actor; lives in Prague
  • Stefan Kisyov (born 1963) — novelist; lives in Prague
  • Jiří Růžek (born 1967) — art photographer; lives in Prague
  • Tomas Kalnoky (born 1980) — guitarist, singer; born in Prague

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Famous quotes containing the word arts:

    “These modern ingenious sciences and arts do not affect me as those more venerable arts of hunting and fishing, and even of husbandry in its primitive and simple form; as ancient and honorable trades as the sun and moon and winds pursue, coeval with the faculties of man, and invented when these were invented. We do not know their John Gutenberg, or Richard Arkwright, though the poets would fain make them to have been gradually learned and taught.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “If we will admit time into our thoughts at all, the mythologies, those vestiges of ancient poems, wrecks of poems, so to speak, the world’s inheritance,... these are the materials and hints for a history of the rise and progress of the race; how, from the condition of ants, it arrived at the condition of men, and arts were gradually invented. Let a thousand surmises shed some light on this story.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)