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Courtyard

Wladyslaw Lam

Basic information

ID: Ж-3940
Author: Wladyslaw Lam
Name: Courtyard
Date of creation: 1938
Country: Austro-Hungarian Empire
Culture: Eastern Europe
Technique: oil painting
Material: canvas oil
Dimensions: 70 x 54 cm (height x width)

Additionally

Type: painting
Genre: landscape
Provenance: Received from the private collection, 1963

Information about author

Author: Wladyslaw Lam
Author in the original: Władysław Lam
Artist's lifetime: 1893–1984
Country: Austro-Hungarian Empire
Biography: Wladyslaw Lam (29.08.1893, Konjic, now Bosnia and Herzegovina – 01.01.1984, Gdansk, Poland) – Polish painter, graphic artist, and art critic. Member of art societies "The Formists", "Plastyka", "Avangard", "Swit", "Nowa Generacja", the Lviv Professional Union of Artists-Plastics (1932), National Union of Artists of Ukraine (1939). Studied at the Krakow Academy of Arts (1912–1918; where his teachers were Teodor Axentowicz, Leon Wyczolkowski, Jozef Mehoffer). He worked in Paris, Lodz, Poznan; from 1932, in Lviv. He served as head of the Department of Figure Drawing at the Architectural Department of the Lviv Polytechnic School from 1934 to 1939. From 1945, he was a professor at the School of Plastic Arts in Sopot, Poland, and from 1949 – head of the department of painting and sculpture at the Polytechnic in Gdansk. He has participated in exhibitions in Lviv since 1925. Had his personal exhibitions in Lviv (1928, 1932, 1935, 1937). His main field of activity is easel painting (figurative compositions, landscapes, portraits, still life) and graphics (woodcut, lithography, "monorites"). In 1917–1920, he was under the influence of Neoclassicism (he stylised his paintings of Italian Renaissance of the 15th century), Cubism and formism; in 1930–1940, he switched to Post-Impressionism (representation of idyllic scenes in warm harmonious colouring); from 1950s, he created abstract compositions. Author of articles on contemporary painting in "Nowe czasy" magazine (1935), as well as books "Malarstwo and jego zasady" (1935), "Jak rozwijać twórczość malarską u dziecka do 14-go roku życia" (1936; both in Lviv), and "Rysunek і malarstwo" (1959), "Malarstwo. Problemy podstawowe" (1964), "Malarstwo dzieci w świetle współczesnych poglądów" (1967), "Malarstwo na przestrzeni stuleci", and "Problemy wychowania plastycznego" (both in 1972), "Twórczość przejawem instynktu życia" (1977; all in Warsaw).

Object description

A small courtyard surrounded by tall houses. On the left is the grey wall of a two-storey building. In the back and to the right are two-storey buildings under a red roof; with a full second-floor balcony, there is also a yellow "G" shaped house. To the right, the courtyard is divided by a raft of planks, behind which two pine trees can be seen. At the back of the courtyard, in front of a low, roofless house, are four rubbish bins, with green bushes visible behind them. Above the courtyard is a green-blue sky with pinkish-grey clouds. The artist reproduces the landscape scenes in a very interesting colouristic way: the first one is grey-green, while the second is ochre-yellow.

Inscriptions

In the bottom right is the author's signature: "W.J.Lam"

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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