page_title: Antonín Chittussi
section_title: The influence of Paris
hierarchical_section_title: Antonín Chittussi / Biography / The influence of Paris
caption_attribution_description: Čeština: Antonín Chittussi 1890
context_page_description: Antonín Chittussi was a Czech Impressionist landscape and cityscape painter.
context_section_description: He arrived in time for the "Fourth Impressionist Exhibition", but was not ready to accept what he saw. Eventually, though, he concluded that most of his earlier work had "been in vain". In 1880, he rented a small studio and began to work on absorbing the new styles. He soon gained the support of the writer Élémir Bourges, who would later marry Zdenka's sister, Anna. In 1882, he was invited to spend six months painting at the Radziwiłł estate near Ermenonville. The following year, he exhibited at the Salon. Although successful, by 1884 he was ready to return home and held an auction of his works at the Hôtel Drouot. As it turned out, this meant a cooling of his relationship with Zdenka, as she actually began to spend more time in Paris than before, pursuing her career.
  He soon discovered an area in Southern Bohemia that inspired him to paint and helped him to assuage his hurt feelings. Shortly after, he settled near Člunek. In 1887, he developed health problems, which were believed to be related to the time he spent outdoors, painting during inclement weather. He gradually grew weaker and was diagnosed with tuberculosis. In an effort to stop the disease's progress, he went to the Tatra Mountains, but it was too late. In 1891, he died in Prague on the way home from treatment.
  A street in the Bubeneč district there is named after him and, in 1997, the Czech government used one of his paintings (a castle in Chantilly) on a postage stamp.
caption: View of the Tatra Mountains (1890)
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