Where: This bust with plaque is located on Ostrovni 2 in Prague 1,  right behind the National Theatre (Narodni Divaldo). GPS 50.080409, 14.414020 

What: It is a bust with a plaque of text that commemorates Vojtech Hynais. It reads; “Here, the famous Czech painter Vojtěch Hynais lived and died, the creator of the National Theater curtain. To our Honorary Chairman from the Unity of Artists in Prague”. It was installed in 1933 and created by Jakub Obrovsky.

Who: Vojtech Hynais (14 January 1854, Vienna – 22 August 1925, Prague) was a prominent Czech painter. He mainly painted religious and mythological images, focusing on integrating the human and the natural using particularly female nudes.  Vojtech is mostly remembered for creating a new curtain for the National Theater after the fire of 1881. The curtain celebrates the dedication of the Czech nation that was showed in rebuilding the National Theater. He also was a professor at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts. He is buried at the famous Vysehrad cemetery.

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