ALOIS MORAVEC, Farming’s Landscape&Horses&Horseman&Farmyard/ORIGINAL ETCHING 1930

Specification  

Continent: #Europa  

Motive: #landscape #vita rustica

Artist’s Main Feature: #The provincial South-Bohemia-born professional artist of the highest calibre ALOIS MORAVEC (1899-1987) was a best known Czech engraver, painter. He graduated from the Prague School of Arts, Architecture and Design before attending the famous special Graphic School of Max Švabinský with a preference for social thematic. He devoted himself to painting, free and applied graphics, drawing, illustration, book covers and the creation of exlibris. His constant inspiration were landscapes of southern Bohemia which brightened up with human figures. His optimistic work, characterised by playful colours, reflects the relationship between nature and man. About 1930 he finished the long period of his graphic work, which thereafter will be continuing sporadic only with renewing of the old motives.  

Subject: The vita rustica landscape shows farming with a useful staffage as cows, horses and horseman   

Age: #1930

Medium: #Etching

Location: #Czechoslovakia #Czech Republic  

Signature: pencil signed by the author and in print 

Originality: original etching dated by Catalogue

Size (in mm): 

The overall size is ca. 370 x 440 

The image size is 170 x 240

Size (in inches): 

The overall size is ca. 14,5 x 17,3

the image size is ca. 7 x 9

Condition:

Grading: It is good on the whole, please study the photographs carefully.

Corners: Good

Writing to back: No

Writing to front: signed by the author with pencil

Stains on front: No

Stains on back: No

 Creases or bends: No 

Tears: No 

Pinholes: No

Artist#Engraver: Alois Moravec (1899–1987) is a famous Czech painter, graphic artist. From 1913 to 1916 he studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, where his teachers were professors E. Dítět, A. Hofbauer and F. Kysela. The famous Czech graphic artist Max Švabinský was his teacher from 1916 to 1920 at the graphic speciality at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Thereafter Moravec taught at the Vocational School of Typography and other secondary schools in Pilsen and Prague. He was a member of Umělecká beseda, The Hollar Association of Czech Graphic Artists, South Bohemian artists and West Bohemian artists in Pilsen, with which he exhibited. He devoted himself to painting, free and applied graphics, drawing, illustration, book covers and the creation of ex-libris. His constant inspiration was the landscape and the people of southern Bohemia. His optimistic work, characterised by playful colours, reflects the relationship between nature and man. 

His works of art were represented in the collections of the National Gallery in Prague, Alesh’s Czech Gallery in Hluboká nad Vltavou, the East Bohemian Gallery in Pardubice, the Regional Gallery in Liberec, the West Bohemian Gallery in Pilsen, the Chateau in Březnice, the Municipal Museum and Gallery in Vodňany and elsewhere and in private collections.