Matthew Kousal - Artist Info

About Matthew Kousal

  • Biography

    Born in Czechoslovakia, Matthew Kousal became a prolific painter of landscapes and seascapes, completing over 12,000 works. He was also a teacher, giving lessons from his studio.

    Kousal was married to Francis Lucka, and they had three daughters. In 1927, the family immigrated to Chatham, Ontario, Canada where he established his reputation as a landscape artist. In 1948, he moved to Waterloo, Ontario.

    He died March 17, 1990 at St. Mary's Hospital in Kitchener, Ontario.

    Submitted by Roy Carter whose sources are Kousal's obituary in the Kitchener-Waterloo Record,
    Ancestry.com and a meeting with the artist in his studio some time between 1965 and 1970.

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