Career
During his studies at the Academy from 1909 to 1914 he was one of the last pupils of Professor Hanuš Schwaiger. In 1914 he co-founded the art association Koliba (Moravian art competition of the Prague meetings at which he also exhibited). He fought in the World War I as a legionnaire in Italy and in his free time he painted pictures.
He died in 1926 aged only 33 from tubercolosis.
