Bohumil Kafka was a Czech sculptor born in 1880 in Nové Mesto na Morave/Bohemia. He completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and trained as a sculptor in Horice. He then worked as a stonemason and studied at the Prague Academy of Arts under Josef Myslbek. However, Kafka destroyed a large number of his works due to severe criticism from Myslbek. Kafka was strongly influenced by World War 1. From 1922 to 1924, he acted as rector of the Prague Academy of Arts.

Jan Stursa, also known as Šturs, was an artist from the Czech Republic who focused on depicting the female body in his artwork. He developed a clearer artistic language and was influenced by study trips to France and Italy, where he studied classical sculpture