Jan Kryštof Liška (c. 1650 – 1712),
• Was a Czech Baroque painter..
• Born in Wrocław (Breslau), Silesia, into a noble family of Moravian knights.
• After his father died, his mother Helena remarried and he became stepson to German painter Michael Willmann.
• Young Liška with his stepfather formed a close relationship and cooperation between the Liška and Wilmann families was maintained for years.
• Willmann enabled him to complete a study tour of Italy between 1674–1680.
• Since 1689 Liška worked mainly, besides his native Silesia, in Bohemia proper – especially in Prague.
• When his stepfather died in 1706, his studio in the Cistercian Lubiąż Abbey (Silesia) initial went to his son.
• But because Willmann's son died only one year later, the studio then went to Liška, who then managed it until 1712.
• For the rest of his life he obtained contracts from the monastery together with some other Silesian Cistercian monasteries.
• He died on 23 August 1712 in Lubiąż (Leubus).
