Josef V�clav Myslbek (20. 6. 1848 - 2. 6. 1922) - Czech sculptor. The founder of Czech modern sculpture. The author of the famous equestrian statue of St. Wenceslas in Prague.

Josef V�clav Myslbek was born to a poor painter in Prague. Parents led him to craft: he had become a cobbler, but this declined and instead went to teach in the workshop of the sculptor Tomas Seidan. For three years he spent at another sculptor, this time Vaclav Levy, who recognized in him an exceptional talent and helped him to the Prague Academy of Fine Arts. Tu graduated in 1872 and then went on a study trip to Germany. After his return, he participated in the decoration of the building of the Prague National Theatre (among other things is the author of busty Bedrich Smetana in the foyer). In 1878 he went to Paris to study and where he addressed the French sculpture. Inspire also kept a romantic work of painter Josef Manes and Czech patriotic literature. Among his first serious work of others were figures from old Czech legends.

1885 Myslbek started teaching at the Prague Academy of Arts and eleven years later became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he stayed until his retirement in 1919.

Myslbek was known precision and critique their own work, which often subsequently repaired. His crowning achievement is impressive equestrian statue of the patron saint of the Czech lands St. Wenceslas in Prague, where he worked for thirty years. Was completed only a year after the artist's death. His other works include the tomb of Cardinal Friedrich Schwarzenberg in the St. Vitus Cathedral, which was at the World Exhibition in Paris awarded a gold medal or a statue of Karel Hynek Macha on Petrin.

Josef V�clav Myslbek became a model for a whole generation of emerging Czech sculptors. He died on June 2, 1922 in Prague, his corpse was placed on Vy�ehradin Slavin.