Antonin Chittussi was a Czech

Czech people

Czechs, or Czech people are a western Slavic people of Central Europe, living predominantly in the Czech Republic. Small populations of Czechs also live in Slovakia, Austria, the United States, the United Kingdom, Chile, Argentina, Canada, Germany, Russia and other countries...

 Impressionist landscape painter.

He was born in Ronov nad Doubravou

Ronov nad Doubravou

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 to a Czech

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 mother and a father of Italian

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 descent. He was fascinated by the landscape of South Bohemia and of the Bohemian and Moravian Highlands

Vysocina Region

Vysočina Region , is an administrative unit of the Czech Republic, located partly in the south-eastern part of the historical region of Bohemia and partly in the south-west of the historical region of Moravia...

. In particular, his smaller pictures replete with quick, easy brushstrokes are among the most admired of Czech landscape painting. He died in Prague

Prague

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