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Boy's Head Against the Landscape Background

Wlastimil Hofmann

Basic information

ID: Ж-338
Author: Wlastimil Hofmann
Name: Boy's Head Against the Landscape Background
Country: Poland
Technique: oil painting
Material: canvas
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 35 x 59.8

Additionally

Type: painting
Genre: portraiture symbolic art
Provenance: Collection of Badynkh (?)

Information about author

Author: Wlastimil Hofmann
Artist's lifetime: 1881–1970
Biography: Wlastimil Hofmann was a Polish-Czech artist. He was born on April 27, 1881, in Karlin (Prague district), Austria-Hungary. He was one of the most famous European painters of the Art Nouveau style. He was a representative of Symbolism. From 1889, he worked in Krakow, where from 1896 he studied at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts under the guidance of Jacek Malczewski, Leon Jan Wyczolkowski, and Jan Stanislawski. Between 1899 and 1901, he studied in Paris under Jean-Léon Gérôme. The works of the Symbolist artist Jacek Malczewski had a great influence on Hofmann’s oeuvre; they remained friends until the artist's death.The painter died on March 6, 1970, in Szklarska Poreba, Poland.

Object description

This is a bust-length image of a boy depicted in the right-hand profile against the background of a green field and a blue cloudy sky. Holding a pencil in his raised right hand, the boy stares intently at the figure of the saint woman in the middle of the field, near which a small thin tree is depicted.

Inscriptions

At the bottom right there is an author's inscription "Vlastimil Hofmann".

Boy's Head Against the Landscape Background

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