What's in a Prague street name

Kremličkova was built in 1962.

Rudolf Kremlička was born in Kolín in 1886, and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Interested in impressionism, he became all the more so after visiting Paris, and the painter Édouard Manet became his role model.

He became one of the leading members of Tvrdošíjní (‘The Stubborn Ones’), a group of painters whose specialism was naive primitivism.

Kremlička initially painted landscapes (here is ‘Pobřeží’ (Coast; 1927)) but his work was consistently varied; he is most known for his paintings of women.

This is ‘Myčky’ (Washerwomen, 1919).

Kremlička died young – in 1932, at the age of 45 – and is buried at Olšanské hřbitovy. For at least part of his life in Prague, he lived on Pařížská (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/10/25/prague-1-day-217-parizska/), a street it’s hard to imagine ever having been residential.

You might have seen his work without even passing by an art gallery – his mosaics are in Palác Fénix on Wenceslas Square (which is the last building mentioned on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/09/17/prague-1-day-123-vaclavske-namesti/, probably the longest street post of them all, but worth it).