Václav Brožík

Václav Brožík

Master Jan Hus at the Council of Constance, 1883

Portrait of a Lady, around 1880, Kooperativa Collection

Tu felix Austria nube , 1896, Belvedere , Vienna

Václav Brožík (born March 5, 1851 in Železný Hamr near Třemošná , Bohemia ; † April 15, 1901 in Paris ) was a Czech painter .

Life

Václav Brožík studied from 1868 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague under Emil Lauffer , where he exhibited his first picture. In 1871 he continued his studies at the Dresden Academy and from 1873 at the Munich Academy . Here he was particularly influenced by Carl Theodor von Piloty . After a short stay in Prague, he lived in Paris from 1876 . In 1879 Brožík went on a study trip to the Netherlands.

By marrying a daughter of the influential Parisian art dealer Charles Sedelmeyer , he gained access to the higher circles of the city. He commuted between Paris and Prague, where he taught at the academy from 1893. In 1896 he became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. After his sudden death from heart disease, Brožík was buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre cemetery in Paris.

Václav Brožik was a member of the Umělecká beseda artists' association . While the artist was still alive, a stamp was issued in the USA in 1893 with a motif based on a picture by Brožík (Columbus soliciting aid of Isabella).

His students included u. a. the sculptor Alois Rieber .

meaning

Václav Brožík was one of the most important Czech painters of the 19th century and the most important representative of Czech history painting . His history paintings , mainly from Bohemian history , were very successful and are committed to an academic painting style . His most famous picture is Jan Hus at the Council of Constance.

Works (excerpt)

• Eva von Lobkowitz visits her father in prison
• Zawisch von Falkenstein's wedding procession with Kunigunde
• Philippine Welser
• Přemysl Ottokar II said goodbye to his family before the campaign to Austria
• Saint Iria ,
• The execution on the White Mountain
• The wedding anniversary of the Premyslid daughter Dagmar with the Danish King Waldemar II. 1204 .
• The Hussite girl
• The embassy of the Bohemian King Wladislaw Posthumus to the court of King Henry VII (1879, Berlin National Gallery)
• Petrarch and Laura
• A party with Rubens
• Christopher Columbus at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella
• The ballad singer
• Master Jan Hus before the Council of Constance
• Portrait of a Lady (Kooperativa Collection, Wiener Städtische Versicherung), around 1880, oil on canvas, 41 × 27.5 cm
• Tu felix Austria nube , 1896, Belvedere , Vienna - The painting shows the marriage of the children of the Jagellon Wladislaw II, King of Bohemia, with the grandchildren of Emperor Maximilian I of Habsburg on behalf of s. Majesty of the Emperor and King Franz Josef I.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ilse Krumpöck: Die Bildwerke im Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna 2004, p. 143

Web links

Commons : Václav Brožík  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• The first work of art by a Czech artist on postage stamps
• Brožík Wenceslaus. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 117.