Winter in the village - V. Rada
Larger painting painted with oil on canvas by the famous Czech painter, graphic artist and illustrator Vlastimil Rada (1895-1962). The painting shows a view of the village in winter. Signed, dated (year 1935).
Vlastimil Rada studied with professors M. Švabinský, J. Preisler and J. Štursa at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, then worked as a professor in a special painting school, later leading a graphic school. He devoted himself to landscape painting and figural creation, book illustration and caricature. He professed the values of the domestic tradition of Josef Mánes and Mikoláš Alš. He emphasized the archaic character in realistic rural motifs, striving to express the myth of home. In the first half of the 1930s, he returned to the color scale of brown, gray and green.
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Data sheet
- Origin:
- Vlastimil Rada (1895-1962), year 1935
- Technique/Materials:
- Oil on canvas
- Proportions:
- 51 × 82 cm (67 ×97 cm)
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Larger painting painted with oil on canvas by the famous Czech painter, graphic artist and illustrator Vlastimil Rada (1895-1962). The painting shows a view of the village in winter. Signed, dated (year 1935).
Vlastimil Rada studied with professors M. Švabinský, J. Preisler and J. Štursa at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, then worked as a professor in a special painting school, later leading a graphic school. He devoted himself to landscape painting and figural creation, book illustration and caricature. He professed the values of the domestic tradition of Josef Mánes and Mikoláš Alš. He emphasized the archaic character in realistic rural motifs, striving to express the myth of home. In the first half of the 1930s, he returned to the color scale of brown, gray and green.
