Vlaho Bukovac

Has been a native of Dalmatia painter who lived a long time in Prague; Blaise Bukovac († April 23, 1922 in Prague born July 4, 1855 in Cavtat, near Dubrovnik, as Biagio Faggioni ). He is regarded as an outstanding representative of the Croatian Art Nouveau.

Life

After he emigrated in 1866 with an uncle in New York, he lived in the 1870s in Peru and San Francisco. There he taught himself to paint. In 1877 he traveled with support from Medo Pucić and Josip Juraj Strossmayer to Paris, where he was trained by Alexandre Cabanel, at the time he signed for the first time a work ( Turkish woman in the harem ) with the Slavicized name Bukovac, under which he became famous. In the 1880s, he worked on the Serbian king's court in Belgrade and in Dalmatia. In 1893 he settled in Zagreb until he went to disputes with other artists in 1902 to Vienna. In 1903, he received an extraordinary ( from 1910 ) and ordinary professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He trained many 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 at the conference of Versailles. Shortly before his death he made 1922 a portrait of Alexander I (Yugoslavia).

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

Works

Bukovac painted mainly portraits and landscapes. Originally, he is one of the representatives of realism, his later works are counted to Impressionism and Pointillism. He signed his paintings with his partial names but also with Boukovatz or under the pseudonym Andrez, he used the name Bukovac in Belgrade in Cyrillic.

Gallery

Self Portrait

The Croatian National Revival (1896 )

Alexander I (1922 )