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Hudečkova was built in 1965.

Antonín Hudeček was born just outside Ředhošť, near Litoměřice, in 1872. After finishing school in Roudnice, he moved to Prague in 1887 to study at the Academy of Fine Arts (AVU).

In 1895 – and after a two-stint of studying in Munich from 1891 to 1893 – he set up a workshop in Prague and formed a group with various painters, including Antonín Slavíček.

In 1898, his work was part of the first exhibition of the Mánes Association (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/01/18/prague-2-day-11-manesova/); two years later, his works were exhibited in Vienna.

In 1902, Hudeček travelled to Italy, and painted multiple landscapes; he would continue with landscapes when he returned to Bohemia. A second trip to Sicily in 1909 resulted in an affair with the opera singer Mariana Vorlová – his friend’s wife – and an illegitimate son.

Hudeček continued to paint landscapes, including in Rügen, as well as in Slovakia (in the Tatras, the Banská Bystrica region) and Transcarpathia, then in Czechoslovakia but now in Ukraine.

Hudeček was appointed a full member of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1930; he died at home in Častolovice, near Rychnov, in 1941.