Miklos Damek Zmolek: October 1912

Acrylic on 12” x 9” Canvas Board

Miklos was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia on the 31st of October 1869. 

Mother: Dagmar Ivana Zmolek (Prostitute: 17 years old). 

Father: Alanek Veselka (Catholic Priest: 42 years old).

Miklos entered The Prague Institute of Art in September of 1888.

He was a brilliant student and displayed extraordinary promise, but was expelled for assaulting an instructor in February of 1889. 

He decided to gather up his brushes, head to Paris and take the European Art World by storm. Miklos fast became an artist of considerable repute, but his inner demons eventually got the better of him. 

He committed suicide in his Paris loft on the 15th of March 1913.