Antonín Hála was born in 1895 in the Ostrava region. To the general public, he is a relatively unknown artist. In his native Ostrava region, he was rather perceived as the husband of Helena Salichová, the painter and ethnographer. However, Hála was a talented graphic artist and even Max Švabinský himself regarded him as the best artist in social graphic art. After 1920, Hála studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. While still at school, he worked on themes of the city and its periphery besides painting the landscape themes. He survived WWI on the Russian front, most of the time as a prisoner of war of the Russians. In 1952, he died aged 57 in a psychiatric sanatorium in Brno. Before the outbreak of heavy alcoholic depression, Hála lived with his former student love and later his wife in Polanka nad Odrou. Besides painting landscapes, he also worked on portraits and sporadically also figural paintings.