"The Kampa Lovers" is an 1894 painting by the Czech painter and professor Jakub Schikaneder (1855-1924).
Schikaneder is known for his soft paintings of the outdoors, often lonely in mood.
His paintings often feature poor and outcast figures and "combined neo-romantic and naturalist impulses".
Other motifs favoured by Schikaneder were autumn and winter, corners and alleyways in the city of Prague and the banks of the Vltava – often in the early evening light, or cloaked in mist.
Schikaneder was a student of Antonín Lhota at the Academy and finished his studies in 1878, serving for a year in the Austro-Hungarian Army.
He travelled to Paris before continuing his studies in Munich under Gabriel von Max.
From 1891 to 1922, he taught at the Academy of Arts, becoming professor in the studio of decorative painting.
In 1913, he was elected a full member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts.
The National Gallery in Prague held an exhibition of his paintings from May 1998 until January 1999.
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