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Wallachian Church in Lviv

Jakub Glasner

  • Wallachian Church in Lviv
Basic information
ID
Г-IV-51
Author
Jakub Glasner
Name
Wallachian Church in Lviv
Country
Poland
Technique
linocut
Material
paper
Dimensions
44.8 x 28.7 cm (height x width)
Additionally
Type
graphic art
Genre
landscape
Plot
Architecture
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
The main area of the sheet is occupied by an image of the courtyard of the Dormition (Wallachian) Church in Lviv. In the centre and on the right, the galleries and powerful walls of the church rise. On the left is a fragment of the facade and domes of the Chapel of the Three Holy Hierarchs. At the top are two domes of the church, topped with lanterns and cupolas. A fragment of the Korniakt Tower is visible at the top left. The staffage is formed by several figures of parishioners in the centre, under the arch of the gallery.
Inscriptions
At the bottom left of the image is the artist's engraved monogram "G.". At the bottom right below the image is the artist's signature in pencil: "J. Glasner". On the left is the inscription: "Walachische Kirche Lemberg/Orig. Linolschnitt (Eigenhanddruck)".
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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