Education
Bílek attended the Academy of Fine Arts (AVU) in Prague.
Bílek attended the Academy of Fine Arts (AVU) in Prague.
Due to his apparent colour-blindness he moved to Josef Mauder one year later (1888) and started to study sculpture. Given a scholarship offered by patron Vojtěch Lanna, he spent one year in Paris at the Académie Colarossi (Professor Jean Antoine Injalbert). After that, he lived in turns in Prague and in Chýnovember
He was a member of the Mánes Union of Fine Arts from 1898 to 1912.