Mullah

Franciszek Tepa

Basic information

ID: Г-V-666/15
Author: Franciszek Tepa
Name: Mullah
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pencil
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 9.8 x 14.7

Additionally

Type: graphic art

Information about author

Author: Franciszek Tepa
Artist's lifetime: 1828–1889
Country: Austrian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Biography: The artist and graphic designer Franciszek Tepa was born in 1828 in Lviv. He received his initial artistic education from Jan Maszkowski. He continued his studies at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Ferdinand Waldmuller and later at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts under Wilhelm von Kaulbach. In the circle of Lviv romanticists during the 1840s and 1850s, influenced by French painting, the theme of the East became popular. After completing his education at the academies in Vienna and Munich, Franciszek Tepa travelled for two years through Greece, Egypt, and Palestine. His fascination with Eastern themes was expressed in paintings and watercolours. In the 1850s, the artist studied in Paris. In 1858, after returning from Paris, he settled in Lviv. He then created a series of works on everyday themes for Count Wlodzimierz Dzieduszycki. He passed away in 1889 in Lviv.

Object description

The work is a sketch of an elderly man sitting, turned three-quarters to the right, with his gaze directed at the viewer. The man is depicted with a bushy beard and his hands folded on his legs. He is wearing long Eastern attire, and on his head is a fez with a long covering that hangs over his shoulders. Next to the man lies a long staff. In the top left is a sketch of a bearded head in profile to the right.

Inscriptions

At the bottom, on the right, is an Arabic inscription: "Niema innego krolewstwa nad krolewstwo milczenia".

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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