Compositional Sketch

Franciszek Tepa

Basic information

ID: Г-V-666/23
Author: Franciszek Tepa
Name: Compositional Sketch
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pencil watercolour
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 23 x 33

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

In the foreground on the right, a young man who was killed lies face up, to which a young woman with loose hair is leaning over. On the left, near the dead Turk, stand two young Cossacks, one of whom points to the right with his left hand. In front of him, on her knees, is a girl covering her face with her palm. On the right in the background is a sketch of a group of figures, among which one holds a flag in their left hand.

Inscriptions

In the bottom right is an erased artist's signature: "F. Tepa".

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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