70 Girl in Blue

Czech artist Bretislav Jungling was born on the 28th of November 1921 in the small town of Kunčice in the Orlické Mountains. Jungling’s passion for painting and the arts were encouraged when he studied at the School of Applied Arts in Prague during the second World War. Jungling majored in Painting, specialising in the practice of watercolour under professor Fišárek. All his life Jungling painted predominantly in watercolour technique and devoted himself to both the practice of portraiture, whilst at the same time painting landscapes both in Czechoslovakia (especially East Bohemia) and in France, which he loved and created a large series of paintings from France. His love of nature led him to focus on the landscapes of Bulgaria where he developed an interest in seascapes. Jungling also worked on illustrations, namely that of Federico García Lorca's poems and original Czech fairy tales. Despite being a relatively unknown artist in the UK, between the 1950s and 1970s the Czech artist was a highly acclaimed realist painter, painting in watercolour throughout Europe.