Václav Sochor
Václav Sochor (born October 7, 1855 in Obora u Loun , † February 23, 1935 in Prague ) was a Bohemian history and battle painter.
life and work
Sochor attended the elementary schools in Blšany and Žatec , the community school in Louny and finally the secondary school in Rakovník . From 1874 he was a student at the Prague Academy . Among his fellow students were Antonín Chittussi and Mikoláš Aleš , with whom he remained on friendly terms after they were expelled from the academy. In 1882 Sochor first studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . At the age of 26 he went to Paris , where he studied under the painters Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran and Léon Bonnatdeepened his education. Sochor worked in Paris until 1895, where he also met Alfons Mucha . During his work in France he belonged to the circle of traditional painters and presented his works at the annual exhibitions in Parisian salons. Sochor was accepted into the French Society of Fine Arts in 1890 as one of the few foreigners.
In the summer he visited his parents, who had bought homestead no. 42 in Cítoliby in 1875 , and set up his studio malírna there in the back wing . There he created his first monumental image of Corpus Christi in Bohemia between 1884 and 1889 ( Slavnost Božího těla v Čechách ). The 800 × 520 cm painting was presented at the Paris World Exhibition in 1889 and was awarded a silver medal. That still u. a. The picture exhibited in Brussels , Düsseldorf and Dresden is now in the fund of the National Gallery in Prague .
In 1895 Sochor returned to Bohemia and worked in Cítoliby. In 1907 he opened another studio in Prague. In addition to other monumental paintings with depictions from the German War , which he sold to Emperor Franz Joseph I , he also created a series of plein air pictures with landscapes from the Cítoliby area.
The artist spent the last years of his life in Prague, where he died at the age of 80. His grave is in the Cítoliby cemetery.
The artist's oeuvre , like his biography, is largely unexplored. Most famous is the monumental painting The Battery of the Dead in the Vienna Army History Museum , which measures 452 × 750 cm (framed 509 × 809.5 cm) and shows an episode from the battle of Königgrätz . Using a pastose application of paint, Sochor depicts the end of a cavalry battery of the Imperial and Royal Field Artillery Regiment No. 8 in this bloody battle of July 3, 1866 in a pathetically opulent manner . The Austrian field artillery covered the retreat of the defeated Austrian army over the Elbe and completely sacrificed himself. This sacrifice was also addressed by Rudolf Otto von Ottenfeld in his painting “A sheet of fame for Austrian artillery” .
Another monumental painting by Sochor in the Army History Museum in Vienna, which is the counterpart to the Battery of the Dead , is the 491 × 790 cm oil painting Der Reiterkampf bei Střesetitz, 1866, from 1900. It depicts the clash of the Austrian eighth- Perform cuirassiers with the 3rd Neumark Dragoons during the Battle of Königgrätz.
In 1928 Sochor's work was honored in a major exhibition in Prague's Clementinum . Another factory exhibition took place in Königgrätz in 1937 .
Václav Sochor was the older brother of the architect Eduard Sochor .
literature
- Ulrich Thieme (ed.), General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Leipzig, 1937.
- Manfried Rauchsteiner, Manfred Litscher: The Army History Museum in Vienna . Verlag Styria, Graz, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-222-12834-0
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.obec-citoliby.cz/historie/vyznamne-osobnosti/
- ↑ Ulrich Thieme (ed.), General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present. Leipzig, 1937, XXXI, 195.
- ^ Manfried Rauchsteiner, Manfred Litscher: The Heeresgeschichtliche Museum in Vienna. Verlag Styria, Graz, Vienna 2000, 53 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sochor, Vaclav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bohemian history painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Obora o Loun |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 1935 |
| Place of death | Prague |