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Bernardine Church in Lviv in Winter

Jakub Glasner

  • Bernardine Church in Lviv in Winter
Basic information
ID
Г-IV-32
Author
Jakub Glasner
Name
Bernardine Church in Lviv in Winter
Country
the Ukrainian SSR
Technique
colour linocut
Material
paper
Dimensions
28.8 x 38.4 cm (height x width)
Additionally
Type
graphic art
Genre
landscape
Plot
City landscape
Provenance
Collection of Jakub Glasner
Information about author
Author
Jakub Glasner
Artist's lifetime
1879–1942
Country
Austro-Hungarian Empire, Poland, the Ukrainian SSR
Biography
Jakub Glasner (Polish: Jakub Glasner; 1879, Rdzawka near Nowy Targ – 1942, Lviv) was a painter and graphic artist of Jewish origin. He was born into a family of innkeepers near Nowy Targ. In the mid-1890s, he moved with his parents to Bielsko (now Bielsko-Biała), where he grew up, received his primary education and developed an interest in painting. He worked as a house painter and graphic artist, but abandoned this occupation and began his art studies in Vienna in 1901–1902.
After two semesters of study, the artist moved to Krakow, where he continued his education at the Academy of Fine Arts. His teachers there included Julian Falat, Teodor Aksentowicz and Jan Stanislawski. In 1905, he travelled to Venice, where he studied under Lucien Simon, and later to Paris, where he attended the studio of Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen. After completing his studies in Vienna, Krakow, Venice and Paris, Glasner returned to Bielsko.
His studio on Piastowska Street became a centre of the city's bohemian life at that time. The artist frequently travelled to Italy and Germany, where he exhibited his works on numerous occasions. He served in the First World War as a soldier in the Austrian army. During this period, he created around 200 drawings, mostly portraits. After the end of the war, he returned to Bielsko. During the interwar period, he also stayed in Lviv, where his studio was located at 11 St Anthony Street (now M. Zankovetska Street).
Following the outbreak of the Second World War and the Nazi occupation in 1939, he fled to Soviet-controlled Lviv. In 1940, using the surname Libidovskyi, he participated in graphic art exhibitions in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Moscow. Glasner died in the Lviv ghetto in 1942.
Object description
A six-colour linocut, printed by the artist. The artist made the preparatory sketch for the print from the roof of a house at the corner of Halytska Square and Bernardynska Square (now Soborna Square) in the winter of 1940. The date of the work is indicated by the tower of the Church of the Poor Clares in the background on the right, which was built in 1938–1939. The dominant compositional feature is the façade of the Bernardine Church, which seems to dissolve into the evening haze during a winter thaw. In the foreground is the snow-covered roof of the house from which the view of the church opens. The print emphasises the brickwork of the chimneys.
Inscriptions
Below the print, in the lower right corner, is the artist's signature in pencil: "J. Glasner"; on the left of the mat is the artist's inscription: "Bernardinerkirche im Winter/Original Sechsfarbenlinolschnitt".
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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