VIKTOR VORLIČEK/view of behind shake vita rustica&wooden bridge/ORIGINAL ETCHING/1944
Specification
Continent: ##Europa #Czechoslovakia
Motive: #landscape # vita rustica
Artist’s Main Feature: #The provincial Bohemian-born artist VIKTOR VORLIČEK (1909–1976) belongs to Czech artists who possess great interest and charm and the possibility to rise to the height of a great personality. After studying at the famous graphic School of Švabinský he graduated from the Prague School of Arts, Architecture, and Design. His other famous teacher was a painter T. F. Šimon. Nevertheless, VORLIČEK had no lack of original power, and, when most himself, achieved work that fully justifies his place among the most prominent Czech engravers. The results of his prolific original artistic activity stay in undeserved oblivion by the professional circles. VORLIČEK used to use all media of graphic art and drawings. But the chief tenor of his work is the lyric perception of landscapes to realize very realistic to touch each sensitive viewer to create the new intimate perspectives of well-knowing landscapes.
Subject: The vita rustica landscape represents the view of the behind shake with old wooden bridge under the small pass.
Age: #1944
Medium: #original etching
Location: #Czechoslovakia #landscape
Signature: pencil signed by artist/in print
Originality: signed in print and with the pencil from the Collection of Etchings named Twelve Landscapes
Size (in mm):
Passe-partout is 430 x 350
The overall size is ca. 250 x 300
The image size is ca. 135 x 180
Size (in inches):
Passe-partout is 17 x 13,9
The overall size is ca. 10 x 13
The image size is ca. 5,4 x 7,1
Condition:
Grading: Good
Corners: Good
Writing to back No
Writing to front: Signature in print
Stains on front: No
Stains on back: No
Creases or bends: No
Tears: No
Pin holes: No
Artist#Engraver: Among famous persons born in the small Czech town, Jablonec nad Nisou VIKTOR VORLIČEK (1909–1976) is believed to take a place in history not only as an academic painter and engraver but as a patriot and a public figure who contributed most in a renovation of the art and industry school and the arising of the new city museum. Circumstances of his low provenance in the Czech small town Běla u Turnovo and the creative surrounding of his family of provincial teachers made the basis for his relations to music literature and fine art. His father did not stand in the way of an artistic fortune but gave him a piece of advice to receive a more trustworthy profession for his life as a teacher of drawing. In middle school his creative gift revealed itself and his passion to be a painter will influent all his further life direction. By studying in Turnoff at the state real school he found himself in the center of living cultural activity and due to his enlightened teachers he seems to look at the world of the fine art. After making the acquaintance with the works of the painter Jan Prousek and of the other local painters he gave a strong impulse from his friendship with the painter Miloš Votrubec whose untimely decease touched him very deeply. In the town, Nova Paka Viktor attended the real school to meet his new teacher drawing the painter Josef Jelínek who immediately recognized the great artistic talent of his pupil and gave him a recommendation for the famous graphic school of Max Švabinský at the Prague Academy of Fine Art. But to be a teacher of drawing as his father wished Viktor graduated from the Prague School of Arts, Architecture, and Design in 1934, where his teacher was a professor Oldřich Blažíčka. After graduating he studied at the Fine Art Academy under the ruling of professor T. F. Šimon.
Sines 1936 Viktor Vorlíček began the story of his whole life pedagogic activity as a gymnasia teacher in different small provincial Czech towns with unfortunate visiting Mukachevo in the Zakarpattia of Ukraine. From Mukachevo he refuged in the year 1939 before Germany's occupation of Czechoslovakia to leave here all his works. At the time of WWII, the South Czech Region had his other homeland, while he was a teacher at the woman gymnasia in Czech Budejovice in including in local artistic activity to join with his friend Karla Štěcha the Community of the South Czech Artists and make friendship with writer Ladislav Stehlík. To this period of his life belong some graphic circles and bibliophile editions. After wartime and during the period of socialism he was staying in the Jablonec nad Nisou to teach and participate in the cultural activity of the Region.