Vlaho Bukovac

Vlaho Bukovac (early autotype by Georg Meisenbach , printed 1885)

Vlaho Bukovac (born July 4, 1855 in Cavtat near Dubrovnik as Biagio Faggioni , † April 23, 1922 in Prague ) was a painter from Dalmatia who lived in Prague for a long time. He is considered an outstanding representative of Croatian Art Nouveau .

Life

After emigrating to New York with an uncle in 1866, he lived in Peru and San Francisco in the 1870s . There he learned to paint by himself. In 1877 he traveled to Paris with the support of Medo Pucić and Josip Juraj Strossmayer , where he was trained by Alexandre Cabanel , at which time he signed a work (Turkish woman in the harem) for the first time with the Slavic name Bukovac, under which he became famous . In the 1880s he worked, among other things, at the court of the Serbian king in Belgrade and in Dalmatia. In 1893 he settled in Zagreb until he went to Vienna in 1902 after disputes with other artists. In 1903 he received an extraordinary (from 1910 full) professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague . He trained numerous well-known painters such as Emil Filla , Bohumil Kubišta and Bedřich Feigl and made several trips to England, where he made portraits.

In 1918 he was appointed a member of the Czech delegation to the Versailles Conference. Shortly before his death in 1922, he made a portrait of Alexander I (Yugoslavia).

From 1905 he was a member of the Serbian Royal Academy. In 1919 he became an honorary member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts .

Works

Bukovac mainly painted portraits and landscapes. Originally he was a representative of realism , his later works are counted as impressionism and pointillism . He signed some of his pictures with his name, but also with Boukovatz or under the pseudonym Andrez , in Belgrade he used the name Bukovac in Cyrillic script .

gallery

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  Self portrait

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  The Croatian National Revival (1896)

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  Alexander I (1922)

literature

• Mara von Berks : Vlaho Bukovac . In: Österreichs Illustrierte Zeitung , Volume 12 (1902/03), Issue 21 (February 22, 1903), pp. 400–401 ( online at ANNO )
• Bukovac Vlaho. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 126.
• Saur - General artist dictionary: the visual artists of all times and peoples , Volume 15, 1997 ( ISBN 3-598-22755-8 )
• Hrvatska Enciklopedija , Volume 2, 2000

Web links

Commons : Vlaho Bukovac  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Walker Art Gallery

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