اللوحات، والسيرة الذاتية، والمجموعات المتحفية

A Life of Art and Education

Cyril Kutlík was a Slovak-Czech painter, educator, and illustrator. Born in Křížlice, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, he completed his elementary and high school education in Hradec Králové. His formal artistic training began at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where he studied until 1891. Following his time in Prague, he attended lectures at the Department of Historical Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Professor August Eisenmenger.

Kutlík is recognized as the founder of the Serbian Drawing and Painting School in Belgrade, which he opened in 1895. This institution provided classes for full-time and part-time students, artisans, and women. His notable students included Nadežda Petrović, Milan Milovanović, Kosta Miličević, Borivoje Stevanović, Dragomir Glišić, Djordje Mihailović, Ljubomir Ivanović, Branko Popović, Natalija Cvetković, Anđelia Lazarević, and Rafailo Momčilović.

Artistic Focus and Legacy

Kutlík's work included genre, portrait, sacral, and historical paintings, as well as the illustration of folk calendars. He was an advocate of historicism in the visual arts and utilized Serbian folklife motifs. During his time in Tyrol, he produced approximately forty works, including The First Death Victim or The Avely Death. His final work at the Prague academy was titled The Last Moments of Hus's Freedom.

His paintings were exhibited posthumously in Paris at the Exposition Universelle in 1900. He is considered part of the Early Modernist Movement in Serbia alongside artists such as Anton Ažbe, Beta Vukanović, and others.