Historické Staré Město
Cobbled medieval lanes along a river bend, once home to a young painter's scandal-driven exile.
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This guide to Cesky Krumlov's historic old town follows the young Viennese painter Egon Schiele, who arrived in spring 1911 with his companion Wally Neuzil hoping his mother's hometown would feel like home. You'll hear about the riverside studio he rented, the lanes he sketched obsessively, and the local girls he invited up to model for him, drawings that turned parents and teachers against the stranger from Vienna. Walk the same lanes today, past the shuttered windows he once painted.
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