Personality

painter and graphic artist

  Born in Frenstat pod Radhostem, died at Dolní Mokropsy near Prague. 

  Bretislav Bartos graduated from the Prague Academy of Graphic Art, studying under Professors Schwaigr, Pirner and Bukovac. During his time of service in the Italian Legion he created a collection of scenes from the Front. But he also used his native region for subjects for his art. 
Wallachian culture inspired his pictures of Ondras and Juras, Outlaws at the Fire, Spring in the Beskyds, St. John´s Night, Frenstat and also Return from the Fields.
He also illustrated the poet Petr Bezruc´s collection Silesian Songs. The illustrations of Folk Costumes bz Bretislav Bartos were published in Frenstat on a series of postcards.

writer 

poet

  Born and died in Frenstat p.R.

art theorist

   Born and died in Frenstat p.R.

sculptor and painter

  Born in Trojanovice, Died in Frenstat

  Jan Knebl was a graduate of the Advanced Woodworking College in Valasske Mezirici. He worked for a short time under the sculptor Pohlner at Dvorce and then studied in Vienna, in Znojmo and in Budapest. The motifs for his statues and pictures were taken form Wallachian regional culture. On his return to Frenstat he created a number of sculptures, a bust of Josef Kalus, a plaque commemorating the 1931 Radhost celebration and also many Nativity illustrations. One of the Wallachian Nativity illustrations is on exhibition at Montgomery in the USA, another is displayed during the Christmas period in the Church of St. Martin in Frenstat.

sculptor

  Born in  Frenstat,  Died in  Winter Park /USA/

  The world-famous schulptor Albin Polasek was born in Frenstat pod Radhostem in 1879. He was the seventh son of Josef Polasek, a weaving factory foreman and innkeepe, and Petronila, the daughter of the Frenastat butcher Knezek. Although he spent most of his life abroad, he remained always emotinally at one with his birthplace. Polasek´s first artistic endeavours were inspired by the local Nativity illustration tradition. The Nativity figurines that he carved in his Frenstat youth were put on display every Christmas in his home in the United States, where he finally movedin 1901. Albin Polasek graduated as a sculptor from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He created dozens of statues. Some of these such as the Woodrow Wilson memorial in Prague, the statue of T.G. Masaryk in Petrvald near Karvina, were dedicated during his lifetime to the former Czechoslovakia. A. Polasek also donated many of his works to Frenstat. In the Church of St. John the Baptis is displayed his painted group of the fourteen Stations of the Cross. Outside the former boy´s school stands the statue Primeval Struggle. It shows the Slav hero fighting to the death with the Germanic wolf. In Frenstat´s Town hall stands the statue Carving His Own Destiny, showing a man sculpturing himself out of stone, pagan god Radegast and the group of Saints Cyril and Methodius, who brought an alphabet to the Slavonic peoples. 

painter and graphic artist

  Antonin Strnadel drew heavily on Wallachian folklore for his art. This man, who was born with a talent for grapphic art, studied at te Collage of Industrial and Fine Arts in Prague under J. Benda. Later he studied at the Prague Academy of Graphic Art under Professor Max Svabinsky. From 1945 he served as Professor of The Prague College of Indurstrial and Fine Arts. He became one of the most important Czech illustrators of the postwar period.

writer

prose writer and a literary scholar

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