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In Ljubljana, he attended painting courses.
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Alois Beer
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After his apprenticeship in 1849 he went to Vienna, Prague, Styria, Bavaria, northern Italy, Venice, Verona and Milan and Ljubljana. After returning to Dobruška in 1858 he opened a business. 100 in Opočenský street.
Beer was a great promoter of technical innovations.
In a small town, he was considered eccentric and often mocked. He participated in the organization of economic and industrial exhibitions in Dobruška in 1889 and 1892.
Here he received recognition and finally gained some respect from the locals. He died in 1897. One of his most famous works is of the major fire which broke out in Dobruška on October 7, 1866.
Approximately 3500 pages of his text and images are held in the Dobruška Museum of Natural History.
His texts and pictures of individual buildings, local customs, events and festivals, trade practices and tools, offer significant details of everyday life in that region in the 19th century. A Beer exhibition was organized in Prague in 1937.
